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many men always see another’s good fortune as a slight to themselves.
you should remember it in every situation, not just this one. Learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn’t wrong. Or right. It’s just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That’s all. For now, do you think you could learn how to do it, and later decide if you want to do it?”
That was how Chivalry ruled. By example, and by the grace of his words. So should any real prince do.”
“When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.
Not for the first time I realized he considered me slightly slow. My silences he mistook for a lack of wit rather than a lack of any need to speak.
That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.”
I will never forget that night ride. Not because it was a wild gallop to the rescue, but because it was not. Chade guided us and used the horses as if they were game pieces on a board. He did not play swiftly, but to win.
People are intimidated by a man who acts with no apparent regard for consequences. Behave as if you cannot be touched and no one will dare to touch you.
