“Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.”
Pindar (-517–-437 BC) Ancient Greek poet
As quoted in Plato's Gorgias, 484b.
“Law is king of all.”
School of the Heart (1835), Lesson 6; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 430.
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Henry Alford4
English churchman, theologian, textual critic, scholar, poe… 1810–1871Related quotes
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Ogni giusto re primo servatore dee essere delle leggi fatte da lui.
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