Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?

I never confuse the cost of something with its value

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.