The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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