Raymond E. Feist

Have you ever wronged a man . . . just to do him harm? Or have you always had a reason?__aspar answered quickly. __here was always a reason.___here you have it,_ said Samas as he sat down. He motioned for Kaspar to fetch over a cup of water for him. __ou would never look at yourself as __vil_ no matter what the other fellow thought of what you did. It__ in our nature. And that__ the great secret of evil. It is never viewed as evil by those who perpetrate the evil.

...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happened, did.

Some love comes like the wind off the sea, while others grow slowly from the seeds of friendship and kindness." - Carline

What is life for?' he asked rhetorically. 'It's a way to evolve thought. And what is thought for? It's a way to be aware, a stage between the physical and the spiritual. And time? it's a good way to keep things separated.

Robert had taught him to keep his thoughts in the present or near future, for as Robert had told him, To dwell in the past is to live in regret.

why do I want to appear to be drinking more than I am?''Make it a habit. Men in their cups are fools, more often than not. And it can be wise to look the fool at times.

The ways of the heart are complex._ He looked out at the ocean again. __he waves churn and break upon the rocks, Talon. So do human feelings. Passion can be a man__ undoing. With passion must come wisdom; otherwise, your enemies have a weapon to use against you.

Forgive me, Magnus.___ don__ know if I can.___ou must.__till looking into the distance, he said, __ou need my forgiveness?___o. I__ dead. You can do nothing for me. You need to forgive me so you can live.

In Tsurani culture, forgiveness was simply a less shameful form of weakness than capitulation.

I let my anger consume me.___t__ understandable,_ she said.__t may be understandable,_ replied Pug, __ut it is no more forgivable for being understandable.

You learn something new every day, if you just stop to pay attention.

Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.

It's the problem with having a logical mind and giving women the same credit for ability as men, he mused as he dismounted. You can't contrive reasons to keep them safe.

But should you ever come to a time when you need to say something upon my behalf, say this, 'The last truth is that there is no magic.

History is written by victors,_ said Duko. __ut I have little use for history. It is the future with which I am concerned.

All his life he has been in the shadow of Grandfather, and of the man for whom he was named."..."Then, Grandfather would tell us it has nothing to do with fame.___e enjoyed the notoriety, though,_ said Dash.__greed,_ said Jimmy. __ut he gained it from being so bloody brilliant at what he did. He didn__ set out to be the most fiendishly clever noble in history.___aybe that__ what Father knew from the start; it__ just getting the job done and let history decide what history will decide,_ observed Dash.

My ancestors were conquerors, though now they are heroes in our history." Glancing at Amos, he said, "But we wrote the history.

A hunt leader could not show fear, or let it linger in his stomach, for others would sense it soon enough, taste that fear and become possessed by it. They would hesitate when an order was given, and uncertainty would claim their life as readily as the blade of the enemy.