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- Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did theirs, since we've…
- Some nights, one wants to tell beloveds everything that's been waiting to be said. Some nights, a man needs flesh and blood and warm breath…
- What we hold sacred is honor, justice, and glory. You need not swear allegiance to our storm god, to serve with us. Fighters are among…
- Niko's angular face caught a flicker of firelight and Tempus saw his future there: sharp purpose, discipline, and power in perfect balance; love of man…
- Every man's in his own hands, with a little help from his brothers.
- Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power....
- Such hubris could only come from a man's mouth.
- We've the new hard-steel, though why they're all so hot to pay twice the price when men're soft as clay and even wood will pierce…
- Men may not believe you, my son. But you must always say the truth, when the truth holds no danger for you or your loved…
- And Tempus thought then that nothing was more worthwhile than what was growing in this whitewashed barracks, where he has come to build a force…
- One man, one horse, one holocaust on demand.
- In every age he had ever studied, doomsayers abounded. No millennium is attractive to the man immured in it; enough prophecies have been made in…
- The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed.
- Men make their own fates - it's personal, not a matter for debate.
- Every man heals himself.
- Men are fools who forget what really matters while time goes by.
- And what do the Theban hoplites see in this extended rending of the sky, this white-bright glory of Enlil's lightning? The future, but not theirs:…
- Sometimes a man does what he'd most like to avoid.
- This was what men fought for, what men died for: a chance at life, and to fight on other days - the battle of your…
- Listen close and you can hear, Please, bless us and forgive us, and make us good here and strong here. Let us get along here.…
- The heavens listen to what is said on these cobbles. Laws of man and nature come together here. Here you must be firm. Here you…
- Gods are nothing without their worshipers; they act on the affairs and the passions of men.
- Gods and men honor those who have fought in battle.
- Men live, and then they die. It is the quality of the process of living which matters, that and that alone.
- One man can make another's life so much better.
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
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