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by b-mmxx 1582 days ago
“Anacharsis, accordingly, on learning what Solon was about, laughed at him for thinking that he could check the injustice and rapacity of the citizens by written laws, which were just like spiders' webs; they would hold the weak and delicate who might be caught in their meshes, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.” - Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives [0].

[0]: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:20...