Anacharsis Quotes

Play so that you may be serious.

Wise men plead causes, but fools decide them.

Laws are like spiders' webs; they hold the weak and delicate who are caught in their meshes, but are torn to pieces by the rich and powerful.

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The tongue is, at the same time, the best part of a man, and the worst: with good government, none is more useful; without it, none is more mischievous.

These laws of yours are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shreds by people with power and wealth.