Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe.
It’s interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.
What, therefore, is a government at its best? It is a government that “governs” least and instead finds ways to mobilise the energies of our people.
It is no small art to sleep: for that purpose you must keep awake all day.
It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
The solutions all are simple…after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.
An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.