"There is far greater peril in buying..." - Quote by Plato

“The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has in fact been followed throughout, the principle of one man one job, of minding one s own business , in the sense of doing the job for which one is naturally fitted and not interfering with other people.”

“A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.”

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”

“A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.”

“The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.”

“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.”

“"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.”

“There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.”

“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.”