‘Despair is the brother of defeat. Never let it touch you.‘
– Parmenion, to Philip, Lion of Macedon
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‘You can only show the way and it is for others to follow the path.‘
– Jon Shannow, to Con Griffin, Wolf in Shadow
‘I learned a long time ago never to give in to despair. Fortune may be fickle, but she loves a man who tries and tries again.‘
– Parmenion, to Philip, Lion of Macedon
‘The trouble is that if you can’t forget, you can’t forgive.‘
– Prasamaccus, to Culain Lach Feragh, Last Sword of Power
‘All life is balanced. Light and dark, weak and strong, good and evil. The harmony of nature. In perpetual darkness all plants would die. In perpetual sunlight they would wither and burn. The balance is everything.‘
– Revelation, to Cotta, Last Sword of Power
‘To judge a man purely by his blood-line is folly. I have known the sons of cowards to be valorous, and sons of thieves who cold be trusted with the treasure of nations. Such treachery is not of the blood, but of the soul.‘
– Parmenion, to Cleander, Dark Prince
‘In a small section of the garden a tiny weed spoke to the blooms that grew there. ‘Why,’ he asjked, ‘does the gardner seek to kill me? Do I not have a right to life? Are my leaves not green, as yours are? Is it too much to ask that I be allowed to grow and see the sun?’ The blooms pondered on this, and decided to ask the gardener to spare the weed. He did so. Day by day the weed grew, stronger and stronger, taller and taller, its leaves covering the other plants, its roots spreading. One by one the flowers died, until a rose was left. It gazed up at the enormous weed and asked: ‘Why do you seek to kill me? Do I not have a right to life? Are my leaves not green, as yours? Is it too much to ask that I be allowed to grow and see the sun?’
‘Yes, it is too much to ask,’ said the weed.”‘
– The Deacon, The Wisdom of the Deacon, Bloodstone
‘You do not understand the world. Men like to think they control it but this is nonsense. Women rule, they always have. They tell a man he is god-like. The man believes them and is in their thrall. For without them to tell him, he becomes merely a man.’
– Prasamaccus, to Laitha, Ghost King
‘You are not an evil man. Do not allow one mistake to poison your feelings of self worth.’
– Derae, to Parmenion, Dark Prince