# Quote — Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire

> He is a dreamer of ancient times, or rather, of the myths of what ancient times used to be. Such men are harmless in themselves, but their queer lack of realism makes them fools for others.

- Author: [Isaac Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov.md)
- Book: [Foundation and Empire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/foundation-and-empire.md)
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- Topics: [illusions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/illusions.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/foundation-and-empire/he-is-a-dreamer

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> “When the twenty-seven independent Trading Worlds, united only by their distrust of mother planet of the Foundation, concert an assembly among themselves, and each is big with a pride grown of its smallness, hardened by its own insularity and embittered by eternal danger — there are preliminary negotiations to be overcome of a pettiness sufficiently staggering to heart-sicken the most persevering.”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/foundation-and-empire/when-the-twenty-seven.md)

Topics: [politics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics.md)

> It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.

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Topics: [power](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power.md)

> It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. It is not recorded, incidentally, that the lesson has ever been permanently learned.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/foundation-and-empire/it-is-the.md)

Topics: [time](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time.md)