Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and
hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful easily break through them.
-- Anacharsis (c. 600 BCE) quoted in Plutarch, The Lives of the Noble
Graecians and Romans
hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful easily break through them.
-- Anacharsis (c. 600 BCE) quoted in Plutarch, The Lives of the Noble
Graecians and Romans
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