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Cambios was that which man touched and influenced.
Firmos was that which lay beyond human power.
“I think the wisdom of one moment is the foolishness of the next.
“If wisdom were easy, we would all be wise.
“Nai. Silence is my wisdom.
“The things you think, Davico, they keep you from living. If you live in fear, you are not living. You are dead already. Dead long before any danger comes for you.”
“In chessss, you play the table. In cartalegge, you play the people around the table.”
The sharpest weapon a woman can wield. A man will never know her heart, for her face will always reflect himself, like a pleasing mirror.”
you wish the world were clear as glass when in fact it is all mud and confusion.
Let me be myself, only. Nothing more, nothing less. From you, I would have you know me as I am, and hope that I will always know you, as well. We are as we are to each other.”
“Let us simply be ourselves,” she said, and I felt at last that our friendship was renewed.
Your face is certainly an ass, for your lips spill nothing but shit.”
“You bargain with princes. It is more dangerous. Bears speak truth. The tongue of a prince drips lies. Bargaining with bears is simplicity in comparison.” He shook his head. “I do not envy you.”
Any game worth winning is a game worth cheating at,”
If you depend on her gift of chance, you are already lost. What I am saying is that victory is always stolen. It comes not from her favor, but from your action. You must pluck victory from her hand, you must take it, and leave her gasping and wondering in awe at your cleverness.”
With all interests represented, politics becomes a fairer sport, if only because everyone is equally corrupt.”
I recognize that mercy demands we see the difference between one such as he, who follows because he is weak, rather than one who leads, because he is strong.
It is a painful thing to abandon all excuse. To accept that all responsibility is yours alone. To know that to forge through, or fail, is simply what is.
Power does not change a man’s nature, but only makes it more so.
