Plato, Statesman, section 294c

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[294c] who allows no one to do anything contrary to his command, or even to ask a question, not even if something new occurs to some one, which is better than the rule he has himself ordained.

Younger Socrates
True; the law treats each and all of us exactly as you describe.

Stranger
So that which is persistently simple is inapplicable to things which are never simple?

Younger Socrates
I suppose so.

Stranger
Why in the world, then, is it necessary to make laws, since law is not the most perfect right?

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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