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“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf”
― David Gemmell, Fall of Kings

“Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial.”
― David Gemmell, Lion of Macedon

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.”
― David Gemmell, Dark Moon

“Aft the more honour, forward the better man”
― Horatio Nelson

“May all your dreams but one come true, for what is life without a dream?”
― David Gemmell

“You only lose what you cling to.”
― Guatama Buddha

“Only small men are incapable of seeing something greater than themselves”
― Christian Cameron, Marathon: Freedom or Death

“All things in the world are created for Man, yet all have two purposes. The waters run that we might drink of them, but they are also symbols of the futility of Man. They reflect our lives in rushing beauty, birthed in the purity of the mountains. As babes they babble and run, gushing and growing as they mature into strong young rivers. Then they widen and slow until at last they meander, like old men, to join with the sea. And like the soles of men in the Nethervoid, they mix and mingle until the sun lifts them again as raindrops to fall upon the mountains.”
― David Gemmell, The King Beyond the Gate

“So the gods pulled alternately on the rope of this violent and evenly balanced battle, to make it taut over the two sides. The rope was indestructible and no one could break it; but it broke many men.”
― Homer

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
― Stephen Hawking

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
― Albert Einstein

“Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.”
― Siddhārtha Gautama

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”
― Terry Pratchett

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
― Carl Jung

“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

“Love is a mystery. We embrace it where we can. Mostly we do not choose whom we love. It just happens. A voice speaks to us, in ways the ears cannot hear. We recognize a beauty the eye does not see. We experience a change in our hearts that no voice can describe.”
― David Gemmell, Shield of Thunder

“A man is only as strong as that which makes him angry.”
― David Gemmell, The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend

“We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences.”
― David Gemmell

“By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest
heroism”
― David Gemmell, Legend

“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”
― Werner Heisenberg, Across the Frontiers

“Miracles are merely events that happen just when they are needed.”
― David Gemmell

“For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.”
― Plato, Apology

“It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.”
― Plato, Phaedo

“Never mind manoeuvres, always go at them.”
― Patrick O'Brian, Master & Commander