Fot he sin of the idolater is not that he worships stone, but that he worships one stone over others.
A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who...
Above all the mighty detest change.
And he now knew with certainty that the world was hollowed of its wonder by knowledge and travel, that when one stripped away the mysteries, its dimensions collapsed rather than bloomed. Of course, th...
Antworten sind wie Opium. Je mehr man bekommt, desto mehr braucht man. Deshalb findet der Weise Trost im Geheimnis.
Esmenet had loved joking about cocks. She marvelled at the way men fussed over them, cursing, congratulating, beseeching, coaxing, commanding, even threatening them. Once she told Achamian about a der...
Helplessness. If women were hope´s oldest companions, it was due to helplessness. Certainly women often exerciced dreadful power over a single hearth, but the world between hearths belonged to men.
Hope is ever the greatest luxury of the helpless, the capacity to suppose knowledge that circumstances denied.
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