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ANGELO: The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. Those many had not dared to do that evil if the first that did the edict infringe. Had answer’d for his deed: now ’tis awake takes note of what is done; and, like a prophet, looks in a glass, that shows what future evils, either new, or by remissness new-conceived, and so in progress to be hatch’d and born, are now to have no successive degrees, but, ere they live, to end.

ISABELLA: Yet show some pity.

ANGELO: I show it most of all when I show justice; for then I pity those I do not know, which a dismiss’d offence would after gall; and do him right that, answering one foul wrong, lives not to act another. Be satisfied, your brother dies to-morrow; be content.

——Shakespeare, Act II Scene II of "Measure for Measure"

【安哲鲁：法律虽然暂时昏睡，可它并没有死去。要是第一个犯法的人受到了处分，那么许多人也就不敢为非作恶了。现在法律已经醒了过来，看到了人家所作的事，像一个先知一样，它在镜子里望见了许多未来的罪恶，在因循怠息之中滋长起来，所以它必须乘它们尚未萌芽的时候，及时设法制止。

依莎贝拉：可是您也应该发发慈悲。

安哲鲁:我在秉公执法的时候，就在大发慈悲。因为我怜悯那些我所不知道的人，惩罚了一个人的过失，可以叫他们不敢以身试法。而且我也没有亏待了他，他在一次抵罪以后，也可以不致再在世上重蹈覆辙。你且宽心吧,你的兄弟明天是一定要死的。

——《一报还一报》第二幕