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To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe... A bitter pill... The greatest palatinate earl anf the lowliest stipendiary serf share the same problem. You cannot hire a Mentat or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling or witnesses to provide answers. No servant - or disciple - can dress the wound. You dress it yourself or continue bleeding for all to see.

People always expect the worst of the rich and powerful, Sire. It is said one can always tell an aristocrat: He reveals only those of his vices which will make him popular.

Rain - he could hear it rustling through the dark;
Fragrance and passionless music woven as one;
Warm rain on drooping roses; pattering showers
Behind the thunder, but a trickling peace,
Gently and slowly washing life away.

Night, with a gust of wind, was in the ward,
Blowing the curtain to a glimmering curve.
Night. He was blind; he could not see the stars
Glinting among the wraiths of wandering cloud;
Queer blots of colour, purple, scarlet, green,
Flickered and faded in his drowning eyes.

The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be.

When things don’t change any longer, that’s the end result of entropy, the heat-death of the universe. The more things go on moving, interrelating, conflicting, changing, the less balance there is – and the more life. I’m pro-life.

Orr had a tendency to assume that people knew what they were doing, perhaps because he generally assumed that he did not.

And it's my unconscious mind that changes things, without intelligent control. .. Dreams are incoherent, selfish, irrational - immoral, you said a minute ago. They come from the unsocialised part of us, don't they, at least partly? ... Dreams take short cuts.

“One who rules assumes irrevocable responsibility for the ruled. You are a husbandman. This demands, at times, a selfless act of love which may only be amusing to those you rule.”

Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity. - Tleilaxu Theorem (unprover)

Well that was fast xD

Couldn't find the copy of the library book so just went ahead and bought the ebook off Google Play - lol.

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual. - from "Muad'Dib: The Ninety-Nine Wonders of the Universe" by Princess Irulan

What do you despise? By this are you truly known. - from "Manual of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan

The mind goes on working no matter how we hold it back.

"There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors." - from "The Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan

This Duke was concerned more over the men than he was over the spice. He risked his own life and that of his son to save the men. He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men's lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatical loyalty ... Against his own will and all previous judgments, Kynes admitted to himself: I like this Duke.

He had never imagined anything here could be as beautiful as that shattered red horizon and the purple and ochre cliffs. Beyond the landing field where the night's faint dew had touched life into the hurried seeds of Arrakis, he saw great puddles of red blooms and, running through them, an articulate tread of violet...

To the east, the night grew a faggot of luminous grey, then seashell opalescence that dimmed the stars. There came the long, bell-tolling movement of dawn striking across a broken horizon. It was a scene of such beauty it caught all his attention.

To the east, the night grew a faggot of luminous grey, then seashell opalescence that dimmed the stars. There came the long, bell-tolling movement of dawn striking across a broken horizon.

"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain."

"I guess I'm not in the mood for it today," Paul said. "Mood?" Halleck's voice betrayed his outrage even through the shield's filtering. "What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises - no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle of making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting."

She said the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. So I quoted the First Law of Mentat to her: 'A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of process, must join it and flow with it.'

The she said a good ruler has to learn his world's language, that it's different for every world. And I thought she meant they didn't speak Galach on Arrakis, but she said that wasn't it at all. She said she meant the language of the rocks and growing things, the language you don't hear with your ears.

She asked me to tell her what it is to rule, and I said that one commands. And she said I had some unlearning to do. She said a ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel. She said he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men.

A world is supported by four things... the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing... without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition.

The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind. This is the willow's purpose.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.