If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out.

- Hammurabi

Mesopotamia will be one together as city-states we cannot create a full out war over nothing, this will be settled

- Hammurabi

if a builder builds a house and the house falls and kills some one in the house the owners may kill the builder.

- Hammurabi

If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that build…

- Hammurabi

If a chieftain or a man leave his house, garden, and field and hires it out, and some one else takes possession of his house, garden, and field and u…

- Hammurabi

If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.

- Hammurabi

I am old, so give me your peace. Wisdom comes with age.

- Hammurabi

If he does not plant the field that was given over to him as a garden, if it be arable land, the gardener shall pay the owner the produce of the fiel…

- Hammurabi

The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.

- Hammurabi