Tell me, what use is prayer, contemplation, or learning? Does prayer grow rye? Does contemplation fill a fishing net? Does learning build a house or plow a field?
Skill helps, and cunning is good, but savagery wins.
Reputation makes fear, and pride protects reputation.
Men make a kingdom strong, not gold.
Life is just life. We live, we die, we go to the corpse hall. There is no music, just chance. Fate is relentless.
It doesn’t matter what they call us, so long as they obey us.
Enemies come soon enough in a man’s life. You don’t need to seek them out.
Destiny is everything.
A sword is a great tool for discovering the truth.
A leader leads and you can’t ask men to risk death if you’re not willing to risk it yourself.
