22. Neminem oportet legibus esse sapientiorem.
Bacon, De Augmentis, Lib. 8. Aph. 58. Cf. Aristotle, Rhetoric, I. 15. 12.
It is not permitted to be wiser than the laws. In the words of Hobbes (Leviathan, ch. 29), “the law is the public conscience,” and every citizen owes to it an undivided allegiance, not to be limited by any private views of justice or expediency. See § 9.