Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy, #1)

by Robin Hobb

“When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.

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.”

When considering a man’s motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.”