“Inappropriate?” Pattern said. “Such as … dividing by zero?”
“Turned out that the end of the world had to actually arrive before people would take it seriously.”
― Oathbringer
― Oathbringer
“You want to change the world, Shallan. That’s well and good. But be careful. The world predates you. She has seniority.”
― Oathbringer
― Oathbringer
“In all the history of mankind, has any conqueror decided they had enough? Has any man just said, ‘This is good. This is what I wanted,’ and gone home?”
― Oathbringer
― Oathbringer
“But it’s not a matter of morality, is it? It’s a matter of thresholds. How many guilty may be punished before you’d accept one innocent casualty? A thousand? Ten thousand? A hundred? When you consider, all calculations are meaningless except one. Has more good been done than evil? If so, then the law has done its job. And so … I must hang all four men.” He paused. “And I would weep, every night, for having done it.”
― Oathbringer
― Oathbringer
“Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.”
― The Color of Magic
― The Color of Magic
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