Book: Dark side of the coin

How easy to live in this world the fatalists. Don't need to make any decisions. The responsibility never falls on your shoulders.

Good and evil are at war relative, and they mainly depend on who takes over.

- Ordinary people do not, ' said the count. - Every person who ever trampled this ground considers itself the center of the universe.
- He is the center of his little universe, ' I said. And in this universe he's on his own.

We are what we are, ' said the count, pouring himself wine. And no one can change. I don't believe in freedom of choice.
- And I believe - I said. - If you do not believe in freedom of choice, what then do we believe?
- In destiny.
- You are a fatalist, ' I said.
I'm realistic, he said. Although quite accept the idea that they are one and the same. I've lived too long in this world, and well understood that the so-called "freedom of choice" just an illusion. We become what we were destined to be from birth.

We are the sum of our debts and obligations imposed on us even before our birth.

Only someone who believes in nothing, not nourish false hopes.

Lose, if it manages to survive, forcing you to find internal resources to collect will in a fist, to reflect on mistakes, and defeat make you better, stronger. Victory - on the contrary. And the greater the victory, the harder it is the more it changes you.

- Everyone knows that the good should be with fists, - I agreed. - Only is not specified anywhere what size the fists should be good.

Good cannot exist without Evil, Light cannot exist without Darkness, the Order is impossible, if there is no Chaos. It's just part of the same equation, and if you remove one variable, violated the whole formula.

For the life of each person is determined by many factors interacting with each other, but freedom of choice is not among them. There is only the illusion of choice, Tesha human conceit, although in fact the decision taken by an individual at one time or another, are predefined.

- The past is a legend, ' said the Khan of the orcs. The future is legend.
- Then what is real?
- The present is a transition from one legend to another, ' said lance.