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“He understood, for instance, that to rise by the pleasure of the people is the only way of reaching stable eminence, and that to accomplish this, noble qualities must be exhibited. For whilst men singly may be swayed by vicious appeals, collectively they will respond only to appeals of virtue.”
― Bellarion
― Bellarion
“Woman is a fair image in a pool; he who leaps at her is sunk.”
― The Black Swan
― The Black Swan
“Risk sweetens enterprise,’ he answered, ‘and wit can conquer it.”
― Bellarion
― Bellarion
“This was an easier and less costly method of conquest than the equipping of great armies, and also it was more effective, because an invader who imposes himself by force can never hope to be so secure or esteemed as one whom the people have invited to become their ruler.”
― Bellarion
― Bellarion
“He questioned now his heresy on the score of sin. It was possible that, after all, the theologians might be right. Whether sin and evil were convertible terms he could not be sure. But not only was he quite sure that there was no lack of evil in the world; he actually began to wonder if evil were not the positive force that fashions the destinies of men, whilst good is but a form of resistance which, however strong, remains passive, or else, when active, commonly operates through evil that it may ultimately prevail.”
― Bellarion
― Bellarion
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