“When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.”
― Assassin's Apprentice
― Assassin's Apprentice
“There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general:
(1) Recklessness, which leads to destruction;
(2) cowardice, which leads to capture;
(3) a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults;
(4) a delicacy of honor which is sensitive to shame;
(5) over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.”
― The Art of War
(1) Recklessness, which leads to destruction;
(2) cowardice, which leads to capture;
(3) a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults;
(4) a delicacy of honor which is sensitive to shame;
(5) over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.”
― The Art of War
“Too late to apologize, I've already forgiven you.”
― Assassin's Apprentice
― Assassin's Apprentice
“Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.”
― Fool's Fate
― Fool's Fate
“Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.”
― Royal Assassin
― Royal Assassin
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