Good laws...

Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges. Translation: The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
Variant: The more corrupt the state, the more laws.
Original Quote: And now bills were passed, not only for national objects but for individual cases, and laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt.
Book III, 27.

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