Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.

The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.

Here we find further argument for Gotagga’s supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?

Beliefs are the foundation of actions. Those who believed without doubting, he would say, acted without thinking. And those who acted without thinking were enslaved.

Achamian tossed his hands skyward in dismay. “Foolish boy! How many faiths are there? How many competing beliefs? And you would murder another on the slender hope that yours is somehow the only one?

To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.

If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.