#law

Beware of a client who's suing on principle and paying by the hour. He rarely gets his money's worth. ↗

The problem: If you've an antique for sale, then, sad to relate, the world isn't your oyster. It's not that easy. Even if somebody gives you the National Gallery, your options are still very, very limited. Okay, you can sell the Old Masters, set up a trust, buy your favorite brewery. But that's strictly it. You're limited by honesty on one hand and law - that hobble of sanity - on the other. ↗

— Jonathan Gash

#greed #greedy #law #lovejoy #money

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. ↗

— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#philosophy #change

This is a uni-verse (”one song’). There’s one song playing everywhere and we are all notes in it. There are no “special” or “better” notes.Every note is necessary and contains the whole essence of the music. All the power and substance of the universe is seeking to sing its song through you as magnificently as it has ever been sung before. ↗

— Derek Rydall

#emergence #law-of-emergence #selfhelp #spirituality #music

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#destruction #flawed #human-character #human-nature #nature

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. ↗

— Jules Verne

#brave #cannot #human #laws #may

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#character #falliability #flaws #frailty #humanity

The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature. ↗