Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.
In Diogenes Laertius 'Lives of the Eminent Philosophers' bk. 1, ch. 58.

Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.