Magician (The Riftwar Saga, #1-2)

by Raymond E. Feist

‘With bullies it’s always the same: whether or not you can best them doesn’t matter. What is important is whether or not you’ll stand up to them.

‘Then say nothing, Pug. It makes you seem wise when everyone is babbling.

I’ve spent enough time with humans to know that you choose how you feel;

The faults we see in others never seem as dreadful as those we see in ourselves.

I have had all that one of my kind could hope for: health, mates, young, riches, and rest. These are all I have ever wanted, and I have had them.’ ‘’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ’tis achieved,’

wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.

among man’s strange undertakings, war stood clearly forth as the strangest.’

as long as you feel, you live.’

There’s love of parents, love of city or nation, love of life, and love of people. All different, all love.

Love is like a lot of things, it is always best done with the head. Save mindless efforts for mindless things.

Some regard him, for his passing is not without notice; some are beyond him, too great to comprehend him, and so being, are less than he.