You’re loitering, citizen.” “Actually, I was hesitating.

It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.

The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity. The former grows ever wilder, ever more dysfunctional in its extremities; whilst the latter seeks to increase its measure of control, until such efforts acquire diabolical tyranny.' - Traveller

The notion of evil for its own sake strikes me as boring -- all these Dark Lords intent on creating wastelands packed with enslaved victims... for what?

One day, perhaps, you will see for yourself that regrets are as nothing. The value lies in how they are answered.

I hear Seven Cities natives grow fruit just so they can eat the larvae in them.

Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.