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God alone suffices is literally and absolutely true.

Whoever does not have the courage to make history, becomes its poor object. Let’s do it.

How great is a heart that manifests itself in its ability to make sacrifices. The greatest victory is where the greatest sacrifices have been made.

When you’re young, you always want things to change. You want to grow up. You want to go to new places, do new things. But in the end, it’s the things like Christmas, the things that are always the same, that you love the most.

No one who is virtuous can serve two masters.

Beauty, I argue, is a real and universal value, one anchored in our rational nature, and the sense of beauty has an indispensable part to play in shaping the human world.

…it [beauty] is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed. If there are people indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it.

In our hearts, we want to believe in-and would choose-great accomplishment and virue. That’s why our lies, particularly to ourselves, are so beautiful.

“You said that the best way to change people was to love right, and then let them be influenced by your example!”
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“Before any of this can work, our people need to have a minimum level of honor and dignity…”

I faced eternity, and I saw peace there. That will change how I live.

“I will protect those who cannot protect themselves,” he whispered.
The Second Ideal of the Knights Radiant.

We follow the Codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

…weakness can imitate strength if bound properly, just as cowardice can imitate heroism if given nowhere to flee.

I’m a man of extremes, Navani. I discovered that when I was a youth. I’ve learned, repeatedly, that the only way to control those extremes is to dedicate my life to something.

Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.

When you won, it was always better to win quickly and with extreme advantage.

The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you.

‘In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method…

“Why do they treat us so, Moash? Because they know they should be better than they are. Because they see discipline in Bridgemen, and it embarrasses them. Rather than bettering themselves, they take the easier road of jeering at us.”

”In ancient days,” Jasnah said, ”a man who brought peace to his kingdom was considered to be of great worth. Now that same man would be derided as a coward.”

Too many scholars think of research as a purely cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can - what we do that the books cannot is interpret.

“What is the point of research if not to draw conclusions?”
“My tutors told me that supposition was only for the very experienced,” Shallan explained.
Jasnah sniffed. “Your tutors were idiots. Youthful immaturity is one of the cosmere’s great catalysts for change, Shallan…”

The guarantee of an inalienable right to pursue happiness makes no sense, of course, if human beings are not free to seek it.

...if there is no actual difference in kind between animals and humans, if there is only a difference in degree, then we lack any justification for ascribing personhood to human beings and for bestowing upon one another the special moral and political respect of having rights.

A man’s emotions are what define him, and control is the hallmark of true strength. To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.

If a king is seen to assume the burden of the poorest of men, perhaps there will be those who will help him with his own load, so invisible, yet so daunting.

“Authority doesn’t come from a rank,” Kaladin said, fingering the spheres in his pocket.
“Where does it come from?”
“From the men who give it to you…”

The hallmark of insecurity is bravado.

Michael McGivney did some thing that few people have especially in more modern times. He saw an opportunity, rising through it to prominence - and fame and power. Then, by his own choice and having already made his mark, he reverted to his original calling.

Simply bring in a woman and strategies will succeed. There’s no need for soldiers or weapons. Bloody battles were fought, heroic deeds performed. But it was in a wooden summer house That victory was won.