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In vengeance, even a rabbit can learn to become a wolf.
mellifluous,
“Emperor, king, general, duke,” he whispered to himself. “These are just labels. Climb up the family tree of any of them high enough and you’ll find a commoner who dared to take a chance.”
If you try to obey the law, and the judges call you a criminal anyway, then you might as well live up to the name.”
The best followers are those who think it was their own idea to follow you.
What is fate but coincidences in retrospect?
“When you learn enough about the world, even a blade of grass can be a weapon.”
A man’s circumstances are not determined by his talents, Crupo thought, but by where he chooses to put his talents to work.
Many things in this world become real when enough people believe them to be real.
“There is far more happiness in a life that is your own,” his father had said to Jizu, “than a life in which you are handed the lines to say and shown the gestures to make.
A man who willingly acknowledges his own weakness is strong in his own way.
recalcitrant
The young often want that which the old detest and fear. The yearning for the new, for something different glimpsed but faintly through legends and shadows, cannot be taken from them—not unless you freeze their hearts and imprison their minds.
great men do not wait for their greatness to be recognized.
“Those who would be great must be great in all measures, including cruelty.”
“Actions may be interpreted multiple ways, and it is how they’re seen that matters, not what was intended.”
“Strength comes from inside the heart, Lord Garu. If your heart has no center, then you will drift without purpose.”
With memories of their humiliating defeat in Géfica still fresh in their minds, the soldiers of Mi and Solofi had fled as soon as they heard that Marshal Mazoti had landed. She might be only a woman, but she was also a sorceress who could conjure ships out of thin air.
Stories of Marshal Mazoti’s victories spooked Mata’s men, who believed that she could conjure soldiers from the sky.
The grace of kings is not the same as the morals governing individuals.”
