16th April 2019
Oft quoted “He (auditor) is a watch-dog, but not a bloodhound”.
Same judgement also says “If there is anything calculated to excite suspicion he should probe it to the bottom”.
Justice Lopes
re Kingston Cotton Mill Company (No.2) (1896)
13th July 2020
Happiness depends far more on how people’s income compare with those of their perceived peers…., than how they are doing in any absolute material sense.
Alan Greenspan – The map and the territory 2.0
5th April 2021
If enough people don’t believe the State to be capable of dispensing justice, they may start to dispense it themselves.
30th January 2022
Its not greed that drives the world, but envy.
Warren Buffet
22nd February 2023
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
George Orwell
6th May 2023
We must all hang together , or, most assuredly, we shall hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin on eve of signing Declaration of Independence
8th June 2023
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Mark 8:36
30th October 2023
There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Shakespeare in Julius Caesar
8th December 2023
A clever person solves a problem,
a wise man avoids it.
Anonymous
2nd February 2024
Do you ask what is the proper limit to wealth?
It is, first, to have what is necessary, and,
second, to have what is enough.
Seneca Epistles book 1 letter 2
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