Wizard's First Rule: People can be made to believe any lie, either because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it's true. Wizard's Second Rule: The greatest harm can result from the best intentions. Wizard's Third Rule: Passion rules reason. Wizard's Fourth Rule: There is Magic to heal. In the forgiveness you grant, and more so in the forgiveness you recieve. Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie. Wizard's Sixth Rule: The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason. Wizard's Seventh Rule: Life is the future, not the past.
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People will believe anything. They will believe it because they want it to be true, or because they are afraid it is.
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But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.
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She looked so beautiful in the moonlight, but it wasn't only the way she looked, it was what was inside her, everything from her intelligence and courage to her wit, and the special smile she gave only to him. He would slay a dragon, if there were such a thing, just to see that smile. He knew he would never want anyone else for as long as he lived. He would rather spend the rest of his life alone than with someone else. There could be no one else.
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It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind.
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I prefer to accept your adoration from afar.
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Only a fool walks backwards into the future.
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And yesterday he would have killed me to get to his foe. But now we serve each other. Only a fool walks into the future backward.
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Wizard's Second Rule: Tthe greatest harm can result from the best intentions
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Reason is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they a means to discovering them. Reason is our only way of grasping reality; it is our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject reason, but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see.
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No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.
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Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight.
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