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Men listened closer to calm tones than to the loudest shouts, so long as firmness and certainty accompanied the calm.
laughter was better than worrying over what he could not change, such as weary men drowsing on guard. As well worry about death. What could not be changed must be endured.
“He is born again!” Gitara cried. “I feel him! The Dragon takes his first breath on the slope of Dragonmount! He is coming! He is coming! Light help us! Light help the world! He lies in the snow and cries like the thunder! He burns like the sun!”
but fear was a poor tool, and one that always cut the user eventually.
“When a man believes he may die, he wants to leave something of himself behind. When a woman believes her man may die, she wants that part of him desperately. The result is a great many babies born during wars.
human heart is seldom logical.”
“The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills,”
power often grew from others deciding that you already had power, and an appearance of wealth could give that.
once was happenstance, twice might be coincidence, but thrice or more indicated the actions of your enemies.
Only a fool believed women less dangerous than men, but women often seemed to think men fools when it came to women.
‘you cannot win if you will not risk a copper,’
