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“Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Watch the blade, not the soldier, Madoc told me many times. Steel never deceives.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment