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Charillus, being asked why Lycurgus made so few laws, said, ‘Because those who use few words have need of but few laws.’ 1
1 Cf. Moralia, 189 F (1), supra.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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