The Isle Of Portland Quotes & Sayings

According to Plato, the wise man is the best ruler precisely because he doesn't care unduly about political honor and power, much less about bodily pleasures. He is too absorbed in the pleasures of learning to be tempted by the lesser pleasures of glory, wealth, and hedonism. His rule is therefore benevolent and unmarred by self-interest, because the passions which in lesser men would be absorbed in material goods and sensual pleasures are sluiced off into the pleasures of the mind. The — Waller R Newell

Men who know are secure and Men who don't know believe in luck. — L. Ron Hubbard

Being known by everyone is not the same as being loved. — Dean Koontz

A streak of Puritanism runs deep within American society. Permissive and pioneering as we may be on the one hand, we are strict and conservative on the other. As much as we may be a country of mavericks and entrepreneurs, we are also a country of finger waggers and name-callers. As much as we may be a country of compassion for the underdog, we are also a country that believes in self-reliance. — Edward M. Hallowell

Lie you easy, dream you light,
And sleep you fast for aye;
And luckier may you find the night
Than ever you found the day. — A.E. Housman

Sometimes, we need to be strangers to ourselves. Then the hidden light in our soul will illuminate what we need to see. — Paulo Coelho

The market is not a place, a thing, or a collective entity. It is a process. — Ludwig Von Mises