I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement

Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.

Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.

Mat had tried to make her say she saw a hat floating around Mat's head. That would persuade Tuon to stop trying to get rid of his, would it not?

There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.

Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor then.

The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.