They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose… — Thomas More
They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
In the original Latin
Porro causidicos; qui causas tractent callide; ac leges uafre disputent; prorsus omnes excludunt. censent enim ex usu esse; ut suam quisque causam agat; eademque referat iudici; quae narraturus patrono fuerat.
Utopia · 1516
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More, Thomas. Utopia, edited and translated by Paul Turner. Penguin Classics, 2003, bk. 2.
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More, Thomas. Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia. Leuven: Self-published, 1516, bk. 2.
