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Hammurabi
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“Anu and Bel called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared God, to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land.”
Hammurabi (1810–1750 BC) said by 1750 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Preface to the Code of Hammurabi (translated by Leonard William King, 1910)
“If any one owe a debt for a loan, and a storm prostrates the grain, or the harvest fail, or the grain does not grow for lack of water; in that year he need not give his creditor any grain, he washes his debt-tablet in water and pays no rent for this year.”
Hammurabi (1810–1750 BC) said by 1750 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Section 48 of the Code of Hammurabi (translated by Leonard William King, 1910)
“If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out.”
Hammurabi (1810–1750 BC) said by 1750 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Section 196 of the Code of Hammurabi (translated by Leonard William King, 1910)
“Laws of justice which Hammurabi, the wise king, established.”
Hammurabi (1810–1750 BC) said by 1750 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Epilogue to the Code of Hammurabi (translated by Leonard William King, 1910)