The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling.
The snail may leave a trail of slime behind him, but a little slime will do a man no harm… while if you dance with dragons, you must expect to burn.
The past remains the past. We can learn from it, but we cannot change it.
The oak recalls the acorn, the acorn dreams the oak, the stump lives in them both.
The most insidious thing about bondage was how easy it was to grow accustomed to it.
The more you give a king the more he wants. We are walking on a bridge of ice with an abyss on either side. Pleasing one king is difficult enough. Pleasing two is hardly possible.
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.
The man who fears losing has already lost.
The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true.
The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.
The gods mock the prayers of kings and cowherds alike.
The gods don’t care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.
