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Vigilance is the key. Observation is the lock. Utilize both to reveal the true motives of someone’s heart. Find the desire that secretly throbs within every breast, and you know how to master the moment.
Five enemies of peace inhabit us—avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride.
A pauper could inherit a palace if only they thought and desired it enough. Man has no greater enemy than himself.
There are many lessons to be learned in suffering. We would never learn to be brave if all evils were removed by the asking.
that which we conceive in thought and marry to desire becomes real.
“It is more honorable, my dear, to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.”
“To know nothing is the happiest life.” Knowledge is always a sword with two edges. It cuts away falsehood but reveals hypocrisy. Too much truth can lead to heresy.
Man’s mind is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
‘We are slow to believe that which, if believed, would hurt our feelings.’
The magic can sense our innermost thoughts, Eilean. It whispers to us constantly to do better, to be better. When we resist, when we choke those whispers with pride, it stops speaking to us. Not because our pride silenced it. Because we have proven we will not listen.”
“Pride is poisonous, but not ambition.
“Ambition is not evil. Fire can bake a loaf of bread or destroy a mound of hay. The difference is in how it is tended.
Tomes have led some to learning and others to madness. The words themselves can be taken different ways, and many will make excuses for themselves because of what they read.
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
Your thoughts will determine your destiny.”
Man is to man either angel or wolf.
