“power and alliance for them, slavery and conquest over us.”

“This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.”

“Do not mistake the rule of forcefor true power. Men are not shaped by force.”

“Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”

“Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.”

“All of us judge by sight and not by knowledge.”

“So, friends, what method should we use? Hard to choose. I could torch them in their love nest or butcher them in their fragrant bed.”