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He wanted opponents to test him, not become friends. The friends he did have would curse the hour they met him one day, if they did not already.
Use what you must use, or let the Shadow cover the land.
The only way to live is to die.
What is too absurd to believe is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.”
There was a price to be paid for any decision he made. There was a price for who he was. Other people paid it.
Death rides on my shoulder, Lews Therin muttered. Death walks in my footsteps. I am death.
“Women do not become exhausted,” Haman said, “they only exhaust others.
Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather.
Never prod at a woman unless you must. She will kill you faster than a man and for less reason, even if she weeps over it after.
“Let the dead rest, and care for the living.”
We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.
“Use the weapons you have.”
Perrin had always been good at holding his temper; Mistress Luhhan said he never had one. When you were bigger and stronger than the other boys growing up, and might hurt somebody by accident, you learned to hold your temper.
“Boy, the Creator never made the Houses. Some forget it, but go far enough back in any House, and you’ll find a commoner who showed uncommon courage or kept his head and took charge when everybody else was running around like plucked geese.
As many roads down as up, and the roads down as slippery as the others.” Bashere snorted hard enough to make his mustaches stir. “A fool moans when fortune takes him down, and it takes a true fool to moan when fortune takes him up.
“If a woman is stronger than her husband, she comes to despise him. She has the choice of either tyrannizing him or else making herself less in order not to make him less. If the husband is strong enough, though . . .” She poked him again, even harder. “. . . she can be as strong as she is, as strong as she can grow to be.
