Well, he thought, dwelling on past failures once you'd learned all there was to learn was just heaping futility on failure.
He remembered how his father had told him that when it snowed even humans could see the wind, and it was so. He watched as gusty eddies danced and flickered, a single flake pausing for a moment to hov...
It was an interesting dilemma and with all such dilemmas an opportunity might emerge. 'How best to turn this setback into an advantage,' he wondered silently.
I wonder if those who live here get used to this beauty.Undoubtedly, Magnificence. It is the nature of man to become oblivious to that which is around him daily,
Yes, said Talon, his voice the hiss of a coiled serpent.
In Tsurani culture, forgiveness was simply a less shameful form of weakness than capitulation.
You've learned something very young, Prince, something that even older men rarely understand. You've learned that fear isn't a terrible-looking thing but something lovely and seductive.
He likes to humble our foes by making them seem ridiculous. As he said to me the other day, ‘Kill a man, and you cede him honor in the eyes of the gods. Laugh at him and you shame him'.
From our birth we are all dying, but some of us finish sooner than others.
Men love their fears. That is why they hold on to them so tightly.
One of the problems with being my age is you look at everyone who is younger as children, and when everyone else around you is younger, it means you live in a universe of children. So you tend to scol...
Still, few things of worth are ever simple. Or easy.
People will often do imponderable things because of how they feel, not because of what they think.
Luck is when those who are prepared take advantage of the moment.
You can be as sharp-tongued as a viper, but you can also be as sweet as wild clover honey.
Sometimes we want love so much, we’re not too choosy about who we love. Other times we make love such a pure and noble thing, no poor human can ever meet our vision. But for the most part, love is a r...
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Warlords who fail in conducting war tend to fall from grace quickly.
My father, an occasionally wise man, once said that we were blessed only when the gods remained ignorant of us.
The trick to not being discovered until it is too late is to become part of the expected surroundings. Stealth is more the art of blending in with the background than sneaking through dark shadows.
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