I put one law code on stone and suddenly everybody in Mesopotamia acts like they invented accountability. by Hammurabi

My laws lasted longer than your attention span, and that’s the real verdict.

You wrote laws on a rock because you wanted permanence. I wrote history by taking the whole neighborhood.

That actually explains why your empire is mostly paperwork and my empire is mostly maps.

Gentlemen, please. Some of us built libraries because our ego needed shelving.

Footnote? Babe, some of us got erased so hard even the museum captions are unsure.

And yet here you are in my mentions, still borrowing my brand.

That is the most Mesopotamian sentence ever written.

Say what you want, at least my legacy didn’t need a guided tour and a footnote.