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.
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 (f1. c. 600 B.C.), Scythian philosopher
-- Quoted in Plutarch, the Lives of the Nobel Grecians and Romans, Solon