Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (1847)
[...] [H]eaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out [...]
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (1847)
One never forgets the taste of certain tears.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Just as there are no atheists in a foxhole, there are no libertarians in a financial crisis.
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If a statue is ever erected to honour the person who has done most for American investors the hands-down choice should be Jack Bogle
Warren Buffet, Berkshire Hathaway AGM (2017)
He who fights monsters must be careful lest he become a monster himself. For if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back at you.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorain Gray (1890)
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorain Gray (1890)
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights (1848)