You understand a conscience, but not law.
Cleanthes. Why, Sir, is there so main a difference?
Lawyer. You'll never be good lawyer, if you understand not that.
Cleanthes. I think, then, 'tis the best to be a bad one.
Massinger, The Old Law, Act I. Sc. 1.
Among the assemblies of the great
A greater Ruler takes his seat;
The God of heaven as judge surveys
Those gods on earth and all their ways.
Why will ye, then, frame wicked laws?