“Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.”

— Vittorio Alfieri , Virginia

Ove son leggi,
Tremar non dee chi leggi non infranse.
Virginia, II, 1; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 430.

Ove son leggi | tremar non dee chi leggi non infranse.

Variant: Ove son leggi,
Tremar non dee chi leggi non infranse.
Source: Da Virginia, atto II, scena II.

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Italian dramatist and poet 1749–1803

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