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Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise.

Time is so ... fluid where I live

If cities have souls, Sanctuary's was troubled long before Tempus got here, and will be troubled long after he and his are gone.

Revenge is never the best driver for a battle, but a common one.

Shed your mortal skin and let me take you beneath the waves.

Valor was in Nikodemos, unquestionable, and commitment like trees to stand or night to fall.

It's all the same - no good without evil, no balance ... no maat. If we lose one, we lose the other. It's just life, that's all.

Every man's in his own hands, with a little help from his brothers.

Learn when to fear, and how to fear, and how much to fear, before you squander all you have left.

Sanctuary is for lovers, not fighters, this season.

Go carefully, child of mat, where no mercy can be had, and let your faith lead you on.

When the balance is restored, people get hurt.

So some will be left who remember.

I see all sorts of things when I'm clearing my pipes.

It is hard to battle anger, for whatever it wants it pays from the soul.

Nothing walks the earth more savage than a mare enraged.

The gods want to bring a better day, and you are their messengers. Trust not in all you see. Trust only in your hearts. And in us, who love you both.

Nothing he knew of, enunciated life like death.

Choose life over death, Niko, when a choice can be made that puts no soul in jeopardy.

Niko and his women will be the death of all the Stepsons yet.

We know. We've seen it all before.

All gods are tricksters, and war gods worst of any.

You're not one to take lightly, to love of for an evening and leave of a dawn.

Order is its own reward.

The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed.

Nothing powers hate better than embarrassment.

There is no mercy in trading life for life. And certainly no righteousness. Mercy, once given, cannot be taken back.

Live to fight on other days.

And as for death - we get what we expect.

You're talent, and we're the talent scouts.

Love sees all; hate is blind.

For me, myth is the 'common' language of us all.

You get what you expect. Expect to heal. Expect victory.

Deception is a tactic: use it. Do whatever it takes to win.

A wise one determines his own fate.

Sometimes the cost of winning for all the right reasons is so great that spirits die and hearts grow cold.

Life was never simple, happiness never where you thought you'd left it, and right and wrong no more fixed than clouds in the sky.

Fury from the heavens; fury at the gods - inseparable.

Die never for a god, Nikodemos who should know better - not your soldiers' god, nor any other.

One man, one horse, one holocaust on demand.

Her idea of who's worth what ain't mine.

I'm just a weapon of the god.

Death is a doorway, Niko, that leads to an adventure greater than any you have ever known.

The Riddler says you make the world better one battle at a time.

I can start the rain. Bring thunder. Bring lightning. Want to see?

I'm reverent from a distance.

To the death with honor, shoulder to shoulder, and no one gets closer to a Stepson than his partner.

Makes you wonder if the gods are always right.

Your stuff does not own the home; either control your belongings, or they will control you.

Gods are nothing without their worshipers; they act on the affairs and the passions of men.

There must be a corps that will battle for righteousness, for there are endless battalions who serve unrighteousness.

Don't blame yourself, or worry. Neither does a bit of good.

This is as 'alone' as I'm likely to get with you - you're not half so fetching as your daughter.

What doesn't bend must break, when dooms are apportioned and destiny takes the lead. As it will now, and as it must, until this struggle ends.

Gods and men honor those who have fought in battle.

But she has found real love, and love can heal and save.

Painful things are quickly forgotten.

Life to you, Riddler, and everlasting glory.

Sometimes a man does what he'd most like to avoid.

Death's easy to find. If She wants you, you'll meet Her here as well as anywhere.

It's in the god's hands.

When you give death, you give of your own life - every time.

For Harmony. A chance at life. To fight on other days.

War's balance will prevail.

Tempus would be protected, better shielded from whatever the Stepson thought threatening, if love could heal and save.

Time to unite the Sacred Bands, Thebans and his people: one unit, one heart, one swing through life.

Use him wisely. Few have been given such a weapon by the gods or Fates before.

I see ranks ready for battle, stretching out. Five, six horses across, ranks in formation. Endlessly.

One to a customer was the rule: one body; one mind; one swing through life. - Tempus

This fight coming is not a battle of weapons, but a battle of wills.

Be polite to all, friendly to none. Be professional. Be ready to kill everyone and everything.

Men may not believe you, my son. But you must always say the truth, when the truth holds no danger for you or your loved ones.

This is for you. A mage named Randal told me to give it to the Band if you ever came back. 'It surmounts evil,' he told me, 'keeps doom at bay.'

Wars don't bring lasting peace, only lasting death.

Men are fools who forget what really matters while time goes by.

I'm going to kill that god of yours, next. Then we'll see what you can do, and what you can't.

Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did theirs, since we've come here.

You've been playing gods-and-witches again, that's clear.

Proof of war, when it comes, always comes too late.

Arrows are cheap; you're expensive.

What is needed is never to be had without price.

Revenge is fruitless.

Your honor blinds you, Tempus, to what's right and wrong these days.

You must become like yourself.

You count up your dead, every one. Always. Recall them, each and all - every face, every heart.

One man can make another's life so much better.

Some nights, valor and cold purpose aren't enough.

I want to live like a man.

If, as you teach, the universe has no beginning and no end, why should we?

It is upon each soul to recognize its limit.

Gather the shards of your courage. Patch together what resolve you can. We'll find this thing - and kill it.

Dreamers and dreaming dead, lots of them from neither here nor there with no chance of getting home again, lost in place and time ...

Keep your enemies at a distance, your partners close at hand.

Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power ...

I am always yours to call, wherever the sea can reach.

The meaning of life, Nikodemos, is to live life with meaning. The purpose of life is merely to live it, perhaps to give it.

If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow.

As Seth's apprentice, I've learned wisdom of which you've never dreamed.

So well do I love you, I go to my god singing your praises. When I meet my father, I will tell him I fought beside you.

You have crossbows: Shoot early; shoot often.