¡Nunca permitas que el sentido de la moral te impida hacer lo que está bien! - Isaac Asimov

Formality!' Indbur turned up exasperated eyes. Then, strenuously, 'Have you ever heard of proper organization? At all future times you are to submit your request for an audience, properly made out in triplicate, at the government office intended for the purpose. You are then to wait until the ordinary course of events brings you notification of the time of audience to be granted. You are then to appear, properly clothed – properly clothed, do you understand – and with proper respect, too. You may leave.

Only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed

So he created his Foundations according to the laws of psychohistory, but who knew better than he that even those laws were relative? He never created a finished product. Finished products are for decadent minds. His was an evolving mechanism and the Second Foundation was the instrument of that evolution.