you must not use wood to put out the fire.
Principles have a way of yielding to power.
to ask for anything of consequence from friends who cannot refuse is uncivilized.
prophecies do not alter fate, only confirm it.
Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.
What harm is there in dreaming, if it eases pain? What good is reality, if it blots out hope? Can a man's mind be washed without bleaching his soul?