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Against Meidias (224-225)

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And what is the strength of the laws? If one of you is wronged and cries aloud, will the laws run up and be at his side to assist him? No; they are only written texts and incapable of such action. Wherein then resides their power? In yourselves, if only you support them and make them all-powerful to help him who needs them. So the laws are strong through you and you through the laws.

Therefore you must help them as readily as any man would help himself if wronged; you must consider that you share in the wrongs done to the laws, by whomsoever they are found to be committed; and no excuseneither public services, nor pity, nor personal influence, nor forensic skill, nor anything elsemust be devised whereby anyone who has transgressed the laws shall escape punishment.

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