August 19, 2025

Laws are like spiders’ webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but larger things break through and escape.

Solon (c.640 – c.558 BC), Greek law-giver, Quoted in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, by D. Laertius, in The Cynic’s Lexicon, Jonathon Green, ed. (London: 1986), p. 194

Imagine yourself a judge in a court of law. How would you deal with the little people? Do you have the fortitude to confront the big shots?

It is a sobering thought that this phenomenon was evidenced over 2500 years ago.