The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialists.

The more the state plans, the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.

We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.

-- Zeno of Citium

Cultivate both the literary and martial arts.

-- Hōjō Sōun

Excess benevolence becomes weakness. Excess righteousness becomes rigidity.

-- Date Masamune

I came as dew, I vanish as dew — all that I was, all I achieved at Naniwa, is a dream within a dream.

-- Toyotomi Hideyoshi

He who knows only victory and does not know defeat will suffer for it.

-- Tokugawa Ieyasu

I would rather save one citizen than destroy a thousand enemies.

-- Scipio Africanus