Quotes

Find the balance, Wit had said. Accept the pain, but don’t accept that you deserved it.…

the truth may be simple, but it is rarely easy.”

You claim you are not the person everyone thinks you are. Maybe you worry, instead, that you are that person.”

Wages were based on a man’s rank, and you couldn’t just make slaves of men for no reason.

I cannot live in the past. It is foolishness to do so.

Men do well learning many different skills. But men also do well using what the gods have given them.

Life without design is erratic.

It was better not to resist. This was his lot, and he was resigned to it. There was a certain power in that, a freedom. The freedom of not having to care.

Never fight other men except when forced to in war.

A man’s emotions are what define him, and control is the hallmark of true strength. To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.”

Tone and volume. Find different levels for both.

You stand as you always have.  A good man does what he must.

“Who has jurisdiction over this land, Szeth-son-Neturo? A man can rule his home until the citylord demands his taxes. The citylord controls his lands until the highlord, in turn, comes to him for payment. But the highlord must answer to the...

Whether you want to call yourself a Stoic or not, is not really the point. Actually, that is the point. Labels are _pointless._ They close your mind. They close you off to opportunities. They close you off to other people. And worst of all,...

People are always after stuff, but they don’t really like the stuff—they like having the stuff.”