You read too much and understand too little.

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

You read too much and understand too little.

Men," Thom murmured. "Men who shook the pillars of heaven and rocked the world on its foundations." He shook his head. "It doesn't matter. Forget about them. They are dust now.

Time to toss the dice

Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do that to him with mere words? He remembered teaching that same concept to a youth out of the Two Rivers. A sheepherder, innocent of the world, fearful of the fate laid out before him by the Pattern.

If you can't hide what you are going to do, do it so everybody thinks you are a fool.