For when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
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Ambrose of Milan
AD 397
If men had been able to keep the natural law which God the Creator planted in the breast of each one, there would have been no need of that law which, written on stone tablets, enmeshed and entangled the weakness of human nature rather than freed and liberated it.