Seth

“I give dignity second place to expedience,” said Cugel.”
― Jack Vance, Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight

“You would absolve your Gods of guilt?” Tariq said, sounding surprised.

“You would absolve humanity of responsibility?” Amadeus asked, scornful. “The deferral of consequence to higher power is the deepest form of moral cowardice conceivable. Even your precious Book agrees, Pilgrim – we have a choice.”
― ErraticErrata, A Practical Guide to Evil V

“Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow.”
― Jack Vance, Demon Princes

“When I believed that my existence was such a further fact, I seemed imprisoned in myself. My life seemed like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every year, and at the end of which there was darkness. When I changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared. I now live in the open air. There is still a difference between my life and the lives of other people. But the difference is less. Other people are closer. I am less concerned about the rest of my own life, and more concerned about the lives of others.”
― Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons