You play games with people's lives.(...) You forget that they are fragile.
Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.
Much awkwardness ensued.
Tis the gift to be gentle, ’tis the gift to be fair, ’Tis the gift to wake and breathe the morning air, To walk every day in the path that we choose, Is the gift that we pray we will never never lose.
A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one.
I told them," he said in a clear, carrying voice, "that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.