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Our fear of pain is the foundation of all morality.It is that fear that shapes our world, orders civilization. We pass laws, build walls and fortresses, fight wars and forge empires all to minimize our people's pain.Our experiences of pain teach us the nature of suffering, and so we are moved to minimize that suffering in others. Pain grounds our reality is the cornerstone of our interactions with the objective world

"Pain,. Shall I tell you what it's for? Pain teaches mercy,. You suffer so that you understand suffering, so that you do not inflict it without need. Pain makes us human, teaches us to be... human."

"Hardly five minutes of life, and the beast was begging for an end. Do we tolerate our suffering only because we come into ir gradually? Would we all reject life at our first taste of it, if we each but had the knowledge and faculties of age?"

"What is real? Only that which we believe to be real, or are made to believe, or can make others. What is a king but a man who asserts his belief in his own kingship on others? What is a kingdom but his dream? What you see is real, Marlowe, because I will make it real. Am making it real."

"I felt his love for the daughter he had not truly fathered, for the woman he had not truly wed. I watched as the Jaddian sorcerers handed him a girl child wrapped in a towel white as snow, heard his weeping, felt his joy and sorrow mingling as he held the babe in his arms. I felt his heart break as he faced his woman's killer, and knew it had been his love that wrenched the power from his broken spirit."

"He had suffered so much. Lost so much.
I saw battles, and battles. Death and death.
Pain. So much pain.
So much love."

"My rage was not blindness. Not then. It had not been blindness on Perfagium. On Perfagium, my fury had lent me clarity, a clearness of sight and a well dug deep by my grief. The scholiasts had banished emotion, or the great among them had. But in doing so they had banished the greater part of themselves."