People learn to love their chains.
Not all girls are like you.
My mother taught me not to throw stones at cripples. But my father taught me to aim for their head.
It doesn’t matter how loyal a servant you are, no one enjoys the company of a humorless mute.
Hunger turns men into beasts.
Hard truths cut both ways.
Fighting bravely for a losing cause is admirable. Fighting for a winning cause is far more rewarding.
Even the bravest men fear death.
Death by fire is the purest death.
At what point does it become treason to waste the king’s time?
An unhappy wife is a wine merchant’s best friend.
We mothers do what we can to keep our sons from the grave.
