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It’s all very well to put the government in the hands of the perfect man, but what do you do when the perfect man gets a belly-ache?’ That’s the major argument against any kind of absolutism.

A prudent man doesn’t give either a priest or a woman the opportunity to scold him in public.

Centuries pass when nothing happens, and then in a few short years events of such tremendous importance take place that the world is never the same again.

No matter how professional soldiers might be, an avoided battle was always good news.

It’s the way of kings.

You’ve been away from home too long if you can get lost on the way from the harbor to the palace.

I’ve seen hopeless wars won before. If you give in to despair before you begin, you’ll have no chance at all.

Why not hold an election?’ I asked them. ‘I’ve never had that much faith in elections,’ Ran Horb said dubiously. ‘An election’s nothing more than a popularity contest, and popularity’s hardly a measure of any kind of administrative ability.

If you don’t have calluses on your soul, writing isn’t for you. Take up knitting instead.

Kroldor’s men are going to blame him for the way things turned out,’ Hettar observed. ‘I know. But then, that’s one of the hazards of leadership.

There’s a whole catalogue of nasty little emotions curdling in the human spirit, and anything the least bit out of the ordinary raises the possibility of retribution.

I thought the trees down in Lady Zelana’s country were about as big as a tree could get,” he said, “but the ones around here are so tall that they probably tickle the moon’s tummy when she goes by.

Some stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Other stories never end, maybe because they’re alive.

In spite of this universal plunge toward matrimony, I still haven’t lost my senses. If worse comes to worse, I still know how to run.

The men sit around getting fat and arguing with each other about something they call “philosophy” – most of which is pure nonsense.

You’d think that the people who worshiped the real true God would have better sense.

He’s nearly a man,” Faldor explained to Aunt Pol, “and a man always has need of a good knife.

What I’m trying to say, Garion,’ Durnik continued seriously, ’is that you can’t go through life being afraid of what you are. If you do that, sooner or later somebody will come along who’ll misunderstand, and you’ll have to do something to show him that it’s not him that you’re afraid of.

Don’t throw good ideas away until you’ve considered all of your options.

Raphael watched, and gradually he began to understand them. At first it was not even a theory, but rather a kind of intuition. He found that he could look at any one of them and almost smell the impending crisis. That was the key word – crisis. At first it seemed too dramatic a term to apply to situations resulting from their bumbling mismanagement of their lives or deliberate wrongheaded stupidity, but they themselves reacted as if these situations were in fact crises.

It keeps him happy, Dahlaine, and happy people are nicer than gloomy ones. Haven’t you noticed that before?

Your – ah – intervention, shall we say, has simplified things in the palace enormously. We no longer have to worry about Salmissra’s whims and peculiar appetites. We rule by committee, and we hardly ever find it necessary to poison each other anymore. No one’s tried to poison me for months.

Because they were both young, she was intolerant and he was stubborn.

Any time there’s something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they send for me.′ – Garion.

Why are the people all so unhappy?” he asked Mister Wolf. “They have a stern and demanding God,” Wolf replied. “Which God is that?” Garion asked. “Money,” Wolf said.

Lammer stared at the chunk of bread in his hands, trembling violently. “I’ll follow you, my lady,” he declared in a quavering voice. “I’ve eaten my shoes and lived on boiled grass and tree roots.” His fists closed about the chunk of bread as if he were afraid someone might take it away from him. “I’ll follow you to the end of the world and back for this.” And he began to eat, tearing at the bread with his teeth.

He had performed that last service that a man can perform for a friend – he had told the truth about him.

We call this a “bow”, Cap’n, and the thing that’s sticking out of that fellow’s head over on the other side of the trench is called an “arrow”. If you put them together just right, they’ll do all sorts of nice things to people who aren’t nice.

By ostentation and propinquity to the throne, small men are able to avoid facing their own inadequacy.

Sorgan tried his very best not to think about how long it must have taken for a stream that small to eat its way down through solid rock to form its current bed. Sorgan knew exactly what the word “hundred” meant, but when numbers wandered off toward “thousand” – or even “million” – and the people who used those terms were talking about years, Sorgan’s mind shied back in horror.

As long as people are talking instead of fighting, nobody loses very much blood – unless he happens to bite his tongue.

As he grew, the other children grew as well – all except poor Doroon, who seemed doomed to be short and skinny all his life. Rundorig.

Is it? If somebody forces you to do something and there’s no possible way to avoid it, is it really sin?

The victories of the imagination involved no risks, and a confrontation with an enemy always ended satisfactorily when both sides of the conversation came from one’s own daydreams.

The land, indifferent to human boundaries, flowed on unchanged.

Just because I love her, it doesn’t mean that I love you less.

It’s common knowledge that the “church” is nothing more than an invention of the priesthood designed to swindle the ordinary people of the empire out of just about everything they own.

We was doing a lot of what our officers called “maneuvering” – which is officer talk for running.

Lying is an art. A good lie shouldn’t be embellished so much.

Morality deals with what we might like to do, but politics deals with what we must do. There’s no connection between them at all.

This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn’t even stand to look at it any more.

The stars were better company anyway. They were very beautiful, and they almost never snored.

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I’m very happy I didn’t submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

There was an almost musical flow to his illiterate speech, a kind of warm inclusiveness that paid no attention to any kind of social distinctions, and a shrewd, even penetrating, assessment of the chaos around him.

We can try to act civilized and polite, but at the bottom of it all, the power of any ruler is based on a threat. Fortunately, we don’t have to carry that threat out too often.

One of the less attractive aspects of human nature is our tendency to hate the people we haven’t treated very well; it’s much easier than accepting guilt. If we can convince ourselves that the people we betrayed or enslaved were subhuman monsters in the first place, then our guilt isn’t nearly so black as we secretly know that it is. Humans are very, very good at shifting blame and avoiding guilt.

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

Love, My Goddess loves us all, and she gave up Bhelliom willingly out of that love. Bhelliom can’t begin to understand love. In the end that may be our only defense against it.

Fear’s a part of life, Mandorallen, and it’s the only life we have.

It’s the easiest thing in the world to judge things by appearances, Ce’Nedra,” she said, “and it’s usually wrong.

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