It is as impracticable to tie up the tongue of malice as to erect barricades in the open fields.
"If a governor resigns his office in good circumstances, people say he must have been an oppressor and a knave; and if poverty attends him in his retreat, they set him down as an idiot and fool."
"For this time," answered Sancho, "I am certain they will think me more fool than knave."
The great Sancho Panza, the flower and mirror of all island governors.
A law neglected is the same as if it had never been enacted.