No law is quite appropriate for all.
There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
There are laws for peace as well as war.
Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.
This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.