When he was asked ‘What is a friend?’ he said ‘One — Aristóteles

Wit is educated insolence. ♥ 3 A friend to all is a friend to none. ♥ 4 He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. ♥ 6

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. Adam Smith Nothing is built on stone all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. Jorge Luis Borges Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) pt. 1, ch. 3 George Orwell The art of government is the organization of idolatry. George Bernard Shaw