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“Why? Dallben interrupted. In some cases, he said, we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.”
“It is not the trappings that make the prince, nor, indeed, the sword that makes the warrior.”
“The task counts more than the one who does it.”
“I don't even know who I am.In a way, answered Gwydion, that is something we must all discover for ourselves.”
“I can't make sense out of that girl, he said to the bard. Can you? Never mind, Fflewddur said. We aren't really expected to.”
“Neither refuse to give help when it is needed, Medwyn continued, nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.”
“This is a place of peace, Medwyn said, and therefore not suitable for men, at least, not yet.”
“Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.”
“Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.”
“A pig is a pig, said the stranger, and a pig-boy is a pig-boy.”
“We hold each other’s lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.”
“I have marched in many a battle host, Adaon answered quietly, but I have also planted seeds and reaped the harvest with my own hands. And I have learned there is greater honor in a field well plowe...”
“I'm 40 now. When I'm dead, hopefully this house will still be going.”
“What an excellent horse do they lose, for want of address and boldness to manage him! ... I could manage this horse better than others do.”
“Know ye not that the end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered?”
“Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people, to fight one another. I do not feel happy for th...”
“If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes.”
“I do not steal victory.”
“Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish th...”
“So would I, if I were Parmenion.”
