Dialogue

 1 Intro|   which is superior to law and written enactments; these do but
 2 Intro|    others the restriction of a written law. Let me suppose now,
 3 Intro|       to be wise above what is written, shall be called not an
 4 Intro|  nothing contrary to their own written laws and national customs.
 5 Intro|       and the living will; the written word and the spirit; the
 6 State|      compulsory submission, of written law or the absence of law,
 7 State|        of their subjects, with written laws or without written
 8 State|        written laws or without written laws, and whether they are
 9 State|   himself the restriction of a written law.~YOUNG SOCRATES: So
10 State|     remembered unless they are written down, he will leave notes
11 State|       And if he who gave laws, written or unwritten, determining
12 State|       which is contrary to the written rules; what is this compulsion
13 State|        the others must use the written laws of this—in no other
14 State| skilled or unskilled, shall be written down on triangular tablets
15 State|      the sick according to the written rules.~YOUNG SOCRATES: Worse
16 State|    atmosphere, contrary to the written rules, and has any ingenious
17 State|         to act contrary to the written law, he is to be punished
18 State|      for anybody may learn the written laws and the national customs.
19 State|       in this way according to written regulations, and not according
20 State|  operations to be regulated by written law, we were to appoint
21 State|    error than any adherence to written law?~YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.~
22 State|     far as they admit of being written down from the lips of those
23 State|   other than that which he has written down and enjoined to be
24 State|  nothing contrary to their own written laws and national customs.~