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A philosopher-king can manage great things in his lifetime. And his grandchildren can squander it.”
Time was supposed to heal all wounds. To Drummer, that was just a nice way of saying that if she waited long enough, none of the things that seemed important to her would turn out to matter. Or at least not the way she’d thought they did.
Time healed all wounds, but it didn’t erase the scars so much as decorate them.
It seemed to her that the real sign you were getting old was when you stopped needing to prove you weren’t getting old.
Individuals build empires because they want their names to echo through time. They
“I don’t want to bet my life on other people being smart,”
Nothing kept the people calmer than the calm their invaders demonstrated.
“If you wish for peace, prepare for war”
“But it isn’t hubris until he’s failed.”
Singh assumed there was a faith element to the risk that he was just missing. In his opinion, faith was generally for people who were bad at math.
“It’s the reward of old age,” Avasarala said. “You live long enough, and you can watch everything you worked for become irrelevant.”
forth. It was heartbreaking, but he’d made the decision. He wouldn’t look away from the consequences of it. This was his duty too.
“When you fight gods, you storm heaven.”
