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Age is irrelevant where two people have deep, sincere feelings for each other.

In politics, it's what isn't said that matters.

He couldn't even write his name. When he was Emperor, he had to sign documents with a stencil.

Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason.

The world is full of annoyances, none more infuriating than a fool with a valid point.

The idea is to make the space around you into a zone where nothing mortal can survive.

Phrantzes considered for a moment, collecting his thoughts like a general rallying his surviving troops after a massacre.

Why are there never eighty soldiers around when you need them?

Aidi nodded. "Lying to yourself's always a problem," he said.

The easiest way to do anything is properly.

I don't believe in gods, only in religion.

If the world is a book, are you the hero, or just a walk-on part?

The exceptionally profound is always, by definition, basic and mundane.

A quiet life," Stheno replied. "You wouldn't think it was a lot to ask."
The Hammer

I figure a friend has the right to offend you at least once.

Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.

There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.

A city with no way of telling the time can by no stretch of the imagination be called civilised. It's just a mob with walls.

It doesn't matter if your ignorant so long as you can find people to know stuff for you.

If there's a truth and nobody knows it, is it still true? Or is it like a light burning in a locked, shuttered house that nobody will ever get to see?

Basic fact of life: no matter how far you run, you always take yourself with you.

We hold that you can't own anything that four strong men can't lift.

Patient striving with tolerances in the quiet war against error.

When she started crying, all he wanted to do was hit her.

Here lies Mago the boxer, of whom it may honestly be said that he never harmed anybody.

He took a couple of steps. "I clink," he said. "It's undignified."
"Everybody clinks. It's what soldiers do.

It's remarkable the truly stupid things people can do because it's expected of them, or they think it's expected of them.

After all, what is truth but the consensus of memories of reliable witnesses?

A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it's not the work they're supposed to be doing.

Ah well." Gignomai turned slowly round. "It's not often commented on, but when you stop and think, mercy is the biggest injustice of them all.

In an ideal world, you'd be able to pick beef puddings from a beef pudding tree.

When you come to rely on the written word, it's time to light the fire with it.

There is no absolute right or wrong, good or evil, but there are good manners and common decency.

Always tell as much truth as you can when you're lying," he said. "Nothing deceives like the truth." The

Did you ever hear of a place called Sphoe?

War is an admission of failure