Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions;... that laws were like cobwebs,—for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.
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Solon, 10.Diogenes Laertius
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Laertius, Diogenes
Lafayette, Gilbert du Motier
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