“Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.”

— Plutarch

Life of Caius Marius
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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ancient Greek historian and philosopher 46–127

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“Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.”

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