Starting with Seneca who died in the year AD 65. He said “an error is not counted as a crime.” This is as true today as it was 2000 years ago.
And from some other legal and non-legal luminaries, additional thoughts that touch on our work:
Oliver Wendell Holmes – “I don’t say embrace trouble. That’s as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you’ll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.”
Stephen Wright – “I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.”
F. Lee Bailey – “I get paid for seeing that my clients have every break the law allows. I have knowingly defended a number of guilty men. But the guilty never escape unscathed. My fees are sufficient punishment for anyone.”
Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn – “I think the old, sound, and honest maxim that “you shall not do evil that good may come,” is applicable in law as well as in morals.
Eleanor Roosevelt – “I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.”
Mae West – “When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I never tried before.”
And last from Thomas Jefferson – “Delay is preferable to error.” Though we would disagree with this as a general statement because in several of our files, the delay is the error. But according to Seneca, who we agree with, it’s not a crime.
To everyone, enjoy the summer. Take some time.
Your LIANS team