Ancient Quote by David Gemmell

“If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.”

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Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial.

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“It seems to me, that you people spend a great deal of time talking about honour, but strip away the high sounding words and you are no different from any other race. Family? Has Priam not killed wayward sons? When a king dies do his sons not go to war with one another to succeed him? Men speak of how…

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When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive.

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When healers yearn to kill then hope begins to die ... Evil cannot be overcome by evil.

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I have discovered in my long life that there are many words and phrases which have more power than any spell of magick. The most well-known of these is, of course, I love you. But by far the most deadly is, if only. For these two words can strip a man's strength, his courage and his confidence. They become the…

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“Listen...You could spend a lifetime trying to understand the works of evil men. Their joys are not ours. They love to inflict pain, create…

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We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there…

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I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain.

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All men have talents. Some build, some paint, some write, some fight. For me it is different.

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In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations, they first harmonized their families. Wishing to harmonize their families, they first cultivated themselves. Wishing to cultivate themselves, they first rectified their minds. Those who wished to rectify their minds first made their intentions sincere.

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Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect halves. Such was my elation that I ran inside, put on our ancient cracked record of Aretha Franklin singing Respect and danced all by myself for half an hour in our living room, without inhibition, almost…

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Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

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The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect can be won with good deeds; but the Tao is beyond all value, and no one can achieve it. Thus, when a new leader is chosen, don't offer to help him with your wealth or your…

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All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and its poetry can be beautiful; it can make us shiver with the recognition of things we have always suspected or felt. It can draw us back to times when the earth was new to man, and…

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