Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.
Everybody knows it. Wizards are supposed to have beards. It’s common knowledge.
Wizard’s Ninth Rule: A contradiction cannot exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.
Wizard’s Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past.
Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.
Standing for truth is everything. Truth is power. Don’t ever forget that.
We can’t live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.
You can’t love anyone or anything until you love your own existence first. Love can only grow out of a respect for your own life.
Knowledge comes as it will. Life’s lessons come at the most surprising times.
But emotions when based on valued things can be a faithful and consistant sum of truths.
Dance with me, Death, I am ready.
The training of a Mord-Sith takes years – to learn to handle the pain. I guess it’s also why only women are Mord-Sith, men are too weak.
There is nothing that exists that has only one side. Even a piece of paper, thin as it is, has two sides.
Right and wrong are not the product of census.
Every person’s life is theirs by right. An individual’s life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.
Fate does not seek our consent.
Wizard’s Sixth Rule The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue. An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake. He always has a reason that to him is justification. My cat eats mice. Does that make him bad? I don’t think so, and the cat doesn’t think so, but I would bet the mice have a different opinion.
People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it’s true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.
She looked so beautiful in the moonlight, but it wasn’t only the way she looked, it was what was inside her, everything from her intelligence and courage to her wit, and the special smile she gave only to him. He would slay a dragon, if there were such a thing, just to see that smile. He knew he would never want anyone else for as long as he lived. He would rather spend the rest of his life alone than with someone else. There could be no one else.