More from Hammurabi
If he does not plant the field that was given over to him as a garden, if it be arable land, the gardener shall pay the owner the produce of the field for the years that he let it lie fallow, according to the product of neighboring fields, put the field in arable condition and return it to its owner.
HammurabiHammurabi The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.
HammurabiHammurabi If a builder builds a house and the house falls and kills some one in the house the owners may kill the builder.
HammurabiHammurabi If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out.
HammurabiHammurabi If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.
HammurabiHammurabi Mesopotamia will be one together as city-states we cannot create a full out war over nothing, this will be settled.
HammurabiHammurabi If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.
HammurabiHammurabi
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My heart keeps room for you always even when you can’t be here.
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Jenny AJenny A I care but I’m done trying. I love but I’m done showing.
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Keep moving. It’s hard for old age to hit a moving target.
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CherCher We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe I’m going to have wrinkles really soon.
CherCher Sometimes being young and confident is better than being old with experience.When I was young I wasn’t scared about anything.
Thierry HenryThierry Henry We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis de Tocqueville I’ve been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, ‘Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!’
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