We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.
You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.
By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.
I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.
Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up.
We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.