No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.

A voice hissed: "He sheds tears!" It was taken around the ring "Usal gives moisture to the dead!" He felt fingers touch his damp cheek, heard the awed whispers.

I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say "Look! I have no hands!" But the people all around me say: "What are hands?

Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

Control the coinage and the courts — let the rabble have the rest.

What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself?