The Fires of Heaven (Wheel of Time, #5)

by Robert Jordan

if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.”

I take people as they are, not as I would like them to be, or else I leave them.

‘The louder a man tells you he’s honest, the harder you must hold onto your purse.’

“The fox often offers to give the duck its pond.”