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“If the machinery of the Law could be depended on to fathom every case of suspicion, and to conduct every process of inquiry, with…

— Wilkie Collins

Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. [Lat., Auream quisquis…

— Horace

In the corrupted currents of this word offence's gilded hand may solve by justice, and oft, tis seen the wicked prize itself buys out…

— William Shakespeare

“A court is the most depressing place on earth. Wherever there is a throne, one may observe in rich detail every folly and wickedness…

— Gore Vidal

When Gold argues the cause, eloquence is impotant.

— Publilius Syrus

We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall…

— Victor Hugo

“It is impossible to reckon in figures the extent to which wealth is restricted indirectly, the extent to which energy is squandered, that might…

— Peter Kropotkin

To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.

— Samuel Johnson

“A bar of gold means much more to a pauper than to a king”

— Brandon Mull

“High justice would in no way be debased if ardent love should cancel instantly the debts these penitents must satisfy.”

— Dante Alighieri

“And so, if only we are willing to withdraw our necks from the yoke, we can keep as stout a heart against such terrors…

— Seneca

As a man falls out of favour and his wealth declines, we discover for the first time the ridiculous aspects of his character, which…

— Jean de la Bruyere