You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself

Wizard's Ninth Rule A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.

History is rarely made by reasonable men.

Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.

Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty; liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains as protective armor.

It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!

Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured.