Janet Morris Quotes

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And Tempus thought then that nothing was more worthwhile than what was growing in this whitewashed barracks, where he has come to build a force such as men or gods have never seen - a force worth reckoning with, if you were of a mind. And something was of that mind. And something else opposed it. He should have expected that. Battle in the heavens, battle on the earth.

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It was his soul's freedom that was in question. And that question was whether freedom was worth the price when it meant shirking the responsibilities of honor.

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Keep your enemies at a distance, your partners close at hand.

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If, as you teach, the universe has no beginning and no end, why should we?

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Your stuff does not own the home; either control your belongings, or they will control you.

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The city guardsmen were like the keres, doom-bringers of merciless vengeance.

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One lot apiece, one chance to undo an error or secure a fate.

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What wastrel mankind destroyed takes time for nature to put to rights.

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Men live, and then they die. It is the quality of the process of living which matters, that and that alone.

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There is no mercy in trading life for life. And certainly no righteousness. Mercy, once given, cannot be taken back.

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Men may not believe you, my son. But you must always say the truth, when the truth holds no danger for you or your loved ones.

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Revenge is never the best driver for a battle, but a common one.

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Life was never simple, happiness never where you thought you'd left it, and right and wrong no more fixed than clouds in the sky.

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What we hold sacred is honor, justice, and glory. You need not swear allegiance to our storm god, to serve with us. Fighters are among us from many lands, with many gods and many beliefs. Believe as you will. What is between a man and his god is theirs alone to say.

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Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did theirs, since we've come here.

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He loves the world so much. I agree it would be a shame to take that love away from meadow and tree, stream and sky, and all that lives in nature, and leave them lonely.

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Listen close and you can hear, Please, bless us and forgive us, and make us good here and strong here. Let us get along here. Let those we love and left behind be blessed. Let us find the proper path and keep to it. Help us act harmoniously, and find work pleasing in the sight of god and man.

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Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power....

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Gods colliding, ethos and mythos trying to combine. The Sacred Band caught up in a whirlwind not of any god's devising: he and Niko had wanted to save twenty-three pairs of fated Theban fighters. Now everything feels fated and fighting oversweeps its boundaries of time and place and plane.

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Be polite to all, friendly to none. Be professional. Be ready to kill everyone and everything.

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We've the new hard-steel, though why they're all so hot to pay twice the price when men're soft as clay and even wood will pierce the boldest belly, I can't say.

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In every age he had ever studied, doomsayers abounded. No millennium is attractive to the man immured in it; enough prophecies have been made in antiquity that one who desires, in any age, to take the position that apocalypse is at hand can easily defend it. He would not join that dour order; he would not worry about anything but Tempus, and the matter awaiting his attention.

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Fight for life itself and everlasting freedom of the human spirit.

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Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price.

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Humans create their futures every day of every year; only you can alter your worlds.

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