“A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug.”
“There is nothing more bitter than an opportunist who miscalculates.”
“The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.”
“Is this better or worse than being married and living in the suburbs? Better or worse? Who can tell?”
“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
“A true warrior,” she said, “does not fight because he wishes to but because he has to. A man who yearns for war, a man who enjoys his killing, he is a brute and a monster. No matter how much glory he wins on the battlefield, that cannot erase the fact that he is no better than a rabid wolf who will turn on his friends and family as soon as his foes.”