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All virtues come down to courage, at the sharp end of the sword. But courage must be tempered by prudence. Courage wasted by misdirection is the most heart-breaking of all tragedies. If there is an eighth deadly sin, it ought to be stupidity, by which all virtues run out into dry sands. Yet...where does prudence end and cowardice begin? That's a very good damn question!
By Lois McMaster Bujold
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
By Lois McMaster Bujold
You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.
By Lois McMaster Bujold
When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
By Lois McMaster Bujold
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
By Lois McMaster Bujold
The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
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The dead cannot cry out for justice it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
By Lois McMaster Bujold
The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.
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Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
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Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
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Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and then demand as a right. Hold them up for all the market will bear.
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It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.
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It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.
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If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
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If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
By Lois McMaster Bujold