True law is right reason in agreement with nature

True law is right reason in agreement with nature
"True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions."
"True law is right reason in agreement with nature—Cicero

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