Hammurabi Quotes & Sayings

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 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 uses it for three years; if the first owner return and claims his house, garden, and field, it shall not be given to him, but he who has taken possession of it and used it shall continue to use it. — 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 field for the years that he let it lie fallow, according to the product of neighboring fields, put the field in arable condition and return it to its owner. — 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 builder shall be put to death. — 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 man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out. — 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