Crush the foot and the body will fall.
Begging is for the guilty.
What one chooses to believe in and what one is compelled to believe in, there is a difference.
There is only one Supreme Executioner. And those who try to take his place are like children trying to carve wood as a master carpenter. Most will injure their own hands.
The man you must truly repay can never collect his debt.
The better man does not sit in the dark with his woman and his jealousies. The better man stands erect and strong and finds a way to tilt the scales in his favor.
Taking what you want is the way of great men, Kaidu. Never find solace in settling. Attain or die exhausted in the endeavor.
Only a mother can understand what she suffers for her future child.
Blood is nothing. Heart and spirit make the sage.
“There’s no good in anything until it’s finished.”
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
You are released from this prison. But I am truly free.
