She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.

What are gods for if not to sit in judgment over men? The Many-Faced God does not weigh men's souls, however. He gives his gift to the best of men as he gives it to the worst. Elsewise the good would live forever.

The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)

What is dead may never die, but rises again, stronger and harder.

Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.