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" I had just become a name, and names are seeds whence heroes grow."
— Sep 23, 2026 04:59AM
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Deimilė
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"I say to you it is not that there is no justice, only that what justice there is beneath our stars is insufficient. That is why the critics howl, not because they object to the justice of princes, but because they sense the limitations
of that justice."
— Sep 23, 2026 09:39AM
of that justice."
Deimilė
is on page 112 of 173
"Justice, by its very nature, must be retributive. Punishment must follow crime, and cannot precede it. Criminals cannot be brought to justice before their crimes, because before their crimes they are not criminals. Man becomes monstrous by his actions, though the monster dwells in all our hearts, as it dwells in
mine. Lurking. Waiting. Biding its time.
None of us is born evil. Our choices make us so."
— Sep 23, 2026 09:32AM
mine. Lurking. Waiting. Biding its time.
None of us is born evil. Our choices make us so."
Deimilė
is on page 112 of 173
"Once, I might have balked at the thought of doing what I knew I must, but those who balk at justice and shudder at its retributive nature are fools—as all young men are."
— Sep 23, 2026 09:31AM
Deimilė
is on page 103 of 173
"That what is right and just is often
difficult to see and more difficult to know does not mean there is nothing
just or right in creation, only that we are ourselves inadequate in its pursuit."
— Sep 23, 2026 09:14AM
difficult to see and more difficult to know does not mean there is nothing
just or right in creation, only that we are ourselves inadequate in its pursuit."
Deimilė
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"With every threshold we cross we become someone new, for every place is new, and every hour, and with every moment we are
changed."
— Sep 22, 2026 10:00PM
changed."