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Non refert quam multos sed quam bonos habeas.
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Whatever is contrary, bonos mores est decorum, the principles of our law prohibit, and the King's Court, as the general censor and guardian of the public manners, is bound to restrain and punish.
william Mansfield— Jones v. Randall (1774), Lofft. 386; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 177.
Non refert quam multos sed quam bonos habeas.
seneca the younger— It is quality rather than quantity that matters.Letter XLV: On sophistical argumentation, line 1
However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good to my fellow creatures, even to the Cui bonos .
oliver heaviside— Electrical Papers (1882), Vol. I; Preface, p.vii; Maxmillan and Co., London and New York. Full Text
Nam sera nunquam est ad bonos mores via. Quem pœnitet peccasse, pæne est innocens.
— It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways:
He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.
— Seneca, Agamemnon. 242.
Cuius merito quis nos sacerdotes appellet: iustitiam namque colimus et boni et æqui notitiam profitemur, æquum ab iniquo separantes, licitum ab illicito discernentes, bonos non solum metu pœnarum, verum etiam præmiorum quoque exhortatione efficere cupientes, veram nisi fallor philosophiam, non simulatam affectantes.
— Anyone may properly call us [lawyers] the priests of this art, for we cultivate justice and profess to know what is good and equitable, dividing right from wrong, and distinguishing what is lawful from what is unlawful; desiring to make men good through fear of punishment, but also by the encouragement of reward; aiming (if I am not mistaken) at a true, and not a pretended philosophy.
— Pandects, Bk. 1, title 1, section 1, quoting Ulpian, Institutes, Bk. 1. [4]
