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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=430836" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Laws XIII</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then a lawyer said, &quot;But what of our Laws, master?&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he answered: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You delight in laying down laws, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet you delight more in breaking them. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like children playing by the ocean who build sand-towers with constancy and then destroy them with laughter. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But while you build your sand-towers the ocean brings more sand to the shore, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when you destroy them, the ocean laughs with you. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Verily the ocean laughs always with the innocent. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But what of those to whom life is not an ocean, and man-made laws are not sand-towers, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But to whom life is a rock, and the law a chisel with which they would carve it in their own likeness? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What of the cripple who hates dancers? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What of the ox who loves his yoke and deems the elk and deer of the forest stray and vagrant things? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And of him who comes early to the wedding-feast, and when over-fed and tired goes his way saying that all feasts are violation and all feasters law-breakers? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What shall I say of these save that they too stand in the sunlight, but with their backs to the sun? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They see only their shadows, and their shadows are their laws. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And what is the sun to them but a caster of shadows? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And what is it to acknowledge the laws but to stoop down and trace their shadows upon the earth? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall direct your course? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What man's law shall bind you if you break your yoke but upon no man's prison door? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What laws shall you fear if you dance but stumble against no man's iron chains? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And who is he that shall bring you to judgment if you tear off your garment yet leave it in no man's path? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">People of Orphalese, you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Khalil+Gibran">Khalil Gibran</a><div class=q>
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And he answered: 

You delight in laying down laws, 

Yet you delight more in breaking them. 

Like children playing by the ocean who build sand-towers with constancy and then destroy..."></div>
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