"If the highest aim of a captain..." - Quote by Thomas Aquinas
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
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“Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.”
“He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.”
“Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.”
More on Risk
“But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.”
“I'm not so much interested in the return ON my money as I am in the return OF my money.”
“The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.”