Thus the barbarian sage spake: "Laws are spider-webs, which catch the little flies, but cannot hold the big ones."
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Huh I never knew. Well I knew the story of the spider web in the Quran but not that the web itself is a popular motive. Would you mind giving me some other sources/myths/stories on the significance of the web? I would be very grateful.
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From the top of my head: the egyptian stories about the goddess Neith, Aristo of Chios's likening of logic to a spider web, fragile but curious, Chrysippus's theory of pneuma as compared to a spider's web, Nietzsche's spider web of reason
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Upon reaching the cave, the enemies conclude that no one is in the cave because the web is intact. That's when the book says: God is the most cunning of all and the spider web is compared to greatest shield.
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