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Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will like them only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

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These decrees 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.

A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance.

A view of the unseemly actions of drunken men is the most effectual dissuasive from wine.

The forum [is] an established place for men to cheat one another, and behave covetously.

Under which head do you class those who are at sea?

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