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It was clear that the mutiny’s destructive ferocity had turned on itself. Freedom had been won, at the cost of everything.
The lesson of history is that no one learns.
Which bitter scholar – some failed sorceror no doubt – has espoused such views?’ Despite himself, Toc grinned. ‘Aye, fair enough. Not a scholar, in fact, but a High Priest.’ ‘Ah, well, cults see any advancement – sorcerous or, indeed, mundane – as potential threats.
Of all the weapons we turn upon ourselves, guilt is the sharpest, Silverfox. It can carve one’s own past into unrecognizable shapes, false memories leading to beliefs that sow all kinds of obsessions.’
The heart of wisdom is tolerance.
Form an opinion, say it often enough and pretty soon everyone’s saying it right back at you, and then it becomes a conviction, fed by unreasoning anger and defended with weapons of fear.
A truly successful leader is a reluctant leader. Not one whose every word is greeted with frenzied cheering either—after all, what happens to the mind of such a leader, after such scenes are repeated again and again? A growing certainty, a belief in one’s own infallibility, and onward goes the march into disaster.
