Feast Quotes
Gaius
“Mistakes,’ he said with effort, ‘are also important to me. I don’t cross them out of my life, or memory.
And I never blame others for them.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Blood of Elves
We have political systems like this in the Empire. We call them 'protection rackets'..."
—Matthias von Pfeildorf, former Imperial Envoy to Couronne.[1f] bring up how the gangs
follow the feudalism model of half elf man)
Enlightened Self interest
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right."
— Salvor Hardin, Foundation
Non est salvatori salvator,
neque defensori dominus,
nec pater nec mater,
nihil supernum.
(No rescuer hath the rescuer.
No Lord hath the champion,
no mother and no father,
only nothingness above.
The more you obey your conscience, the more your conscience will demand of you.
“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out
of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to
you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave.
They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.” ~Anne Lamott
"In ancient times, the members of our own family and tribe were human, but all else was a dangerous
Other. Our entire history can be considered a process of pushing this boundary back, toward a point at
which nothing that thinks can be said to be alien to us."
You are not what you were born, but what you have it in yourself to be.
Only a fool expects everything to go the way they plan, Raphael. Another lesson for you. Success
doesn't depend on having the perfect plan. It depends on changing plans to match circumstances fast
enough for the changes to be effective. And that means spotting deviations from the predicted course of
events early enough to have time for those changes.
— Michael-lan, The Salvation War
So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he
is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off,
reality remains.
Tacitus
King Baldwin IV : Come forward. I am glad to meet Godfrey's son. He was one of my greatest
teachers. He was there when, playing with the other boys, my arm was cut. It was he, not my father's
physicians, who noticed that I felt no pain. He wept when he gave my father the news... that I am a
leper. The Saracens say that this disease is God's vengence against the vanity of our kingdom. As
wretched as I am, these Arabs believe that the chastisement that awaits me in hell is far more severe
and lasting. If that's true, I call it unfair. Come. Sit.
[they sit down on opposite sides of a chessboard]
King Baldwin IV : Do you play?
Balian of Ibelin : No.
King Baldwin IV : The whole world is in chess. Any move can be the death of you. Do anything except
remain where you started, and you can't be sure of your end. Were you sure of your end once?
Balian of Ibelin : I was.
King Baldwin IV : What was it?
Balian of Ibelin : To be buried a hundred yards from where I was born.
King Baldwin IV : And now?
Balian of Ibelin : Now I sit in Jerusalem, and look upon a king.
King Baldwin IV : [Baldwin chuckles] When I was sixteen, I won a great victory. I felt in that moment
I would live to be a hundred. Now I know I shall not see thirty. None of us know our end, really, or
what hand will guide us there. A king may move a man, a father may claim a son, but that man can also
move himself, and only then does that man truly begin his own game. Remember that howsoever you
are played or by whom, your soul is in your keeping alone, even though those who presume to play you
be kings or men of power. When you stand before God, you cannot say, "But I was told by others to do
thus," or that virtue was not convenient at the time. This will not suffice. Remember that.
Balian of Ibelin : I will.
"That is what it means to the chosen of the inquisition: to realize that one's task is impossible and
attempt it anyway. Out of Hope. Out of Duty. If nothing else, than out of sheer Spite."
— Inquisitor Lichtenstein' Warhammer 40,000
"We could make the world better. It's just easier to shut our eyes." -Blackwall
Reach down into your heart and you'll find many reason to fight. Survival. Honor. Glory. But what
about those who feel it's their duty to protect the innocents. There, you'll find a warrior savage enough
to match any dragon. And in the end, they'll attain what the others won't. Their humanity.
Charolette
“I know you’re almost forty, look almost thirty, think you’re just over twenty and act as though you’re
barely ten.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Blood of Elves
