• Laws are maintained in credit, not because they are essentially just, but because they are laws. It is the mystical foundation of their authority; they have none other.

    Michel de Montaigne: Laws are maintained in credit, not because they are essentially just, but because they are laws. It is the mystical foundation of their authority; they have none other.
    Michel de Montaigne (1964). “Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio”