Famous quotes containing the words permissible and/or power:
“We are almost always bored with people it is not permissible to be bored with.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)