“You will kill ten of us, we will kill one of you, but in the end, you will tire of it first.”

“We should extinguish not candles, but torches, my good neighbour; we should fell not shrubs but trees: we should kill one giant instead of ten dwarfs!.. When there is an ostentatious cock crowing all over the place, what is the use of killing one insignificant chick? In a war you have to kill the king first; thus you can put an end to the battle more quickly!”

“You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.”

“Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.”

“When you are tired of life, come to Haven. And someone will kill you.”

“That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had any time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you.”