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clueless123 | 5 years ago

Over here in S.A. there is a common saying: Behind every fortune there is a crime. I guess it is pretty international after all.

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DFHippie|5 years ago

I think that's a translation of a passage by Honoré de Balzac: "Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu’il a été proprement fait."

jfengel|5 years ago

The French passage has a nice wit to it: "The secret of a great fortune without apparent origin is a forgotten crime, because it has been done properly."

pvaldes|5 years ago

"Derrière chaque fortune se cache un grand crime"

Honoré de Balzac

skizziepop|5 years ago

What or where is "S.A." ?

hanniabu|5 years ago

I love how there's currently 5 comments and they each have a different answer for what it stands for. Let that be a lesson on explicit vs implicit

sammalloy|5 years ago

Likely South America, as it's the abbreviation corporate directories use for offices in that region. South Africa would probably be ZA, which comes from the Dutch, Zuid-Afrika.

Tarq0n|5 years ago

South Africa, the southernmost country on the African continent.

nullsense|5 years ago

My money would be on South Africa.

jnsie|5 years ago

South Armagh in Ireland. Not really, but everyone else was guessing so...