A company’s culture is defined by the decisions its leaders make when no one is watching.

The state, therefore, has not existed from all eternity. There have been societies that did without it, that had no notion of the state or state power. At a certain stage of economic development, which was necessarily bound up with the split of society into classes, the state became a necessity.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

The fact that people are full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.