latrone

Updated: June 2, 2025

Substantially, it is a distinction between those who have and those who have not, and in a question of prospective pecuniary loss the man who has nothing to lose is differently placed from the one who has. It would perhaps seem flippant, and possibly lacking in the courtesy due one's prospective lord paramount, to say with the poet, Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.

Thorstein Veblen - An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation