ProverbMorality
Latin origin44 BC
Latin origin44 BCThe more laws, the less justice
Meaning: Excessive rules and regulations can undermine rather than promote fairness.
Origin: Cicero quoted the maxim summum ius, summa iniuria — extreme law is extreme injustice — in De Officiis (44 BC). The historian Tacitus made a related point: corruptissima re publica plurimae leges, the more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
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