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that the longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose.
“But a man whose actions do not agree with his words is an annoyance to me; and the better he speaks the more I hate him, and then I seem to be a hater of discourse.”
― Plato: The Complete Works
― Plato: The Complete Works
“The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.”
― The Alloy of Law
― The Alloy of Law
“She would always love him. But she would not cease to function because he was gone.”
― The Hero of Ages
― The Hero of Ages
“Perhaps this is stupid reason, but it is reason, and I can respect that.”
― Oathbringer
― Oathbringer
“The most dangerous kind of man is not the one who spent his youth shoving others around. That kind of man gets lazy, and is often too content with his life to be truly dangerous. The man who spent his youth being shoved around, however . . . When that man gets a little power and authority, he often uses it to become a tyrant on par with the worst warlords in history.”
― The Rithmatist
― The Rithmatist
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