Empire of Silence (The Sun Eater #1)
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From Abiatha, the old chanter who tended the belfry and the altar in the Chantry sanctum, I learned not only prayer but skepticism and that even priests have doubts.
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“Remember, the greatest part of wisdom in recognizing your own ignorance.”
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A wise man once told me that flesh was the cheapest resource in the human universe and that life spends more easily than gold. I laughed when I heard that and denied him. I was a fool to do so.
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Man is a wolf to man and a dragon to the inhuman.
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“Wars aren’t won with soldiers, sir. Not unless you’re willing to kill every single enemy in the galaxy. Wars are fought with soldiers, but they’re won with words.”
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Ignoring a thing is not ignorance, and he who holds his silence is an accomplice every time.
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there would be no peace. So long as atrocity was met with atrocity, murder with murder, fire with fire, it mattered not at all whose sword was bloodier.