Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.

Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.

Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.