Author of quotes: Gary Jennings

Historians can be serious people, and the story itself is sometimes so gloomy that does not have the fun. But history is made by real people, and just what incidents when this does not happen.

To treat you with the appropriate noble man respects, just need to decide yourself feel noble!

Each ruler, the chief or Governor surrounded by sycophants and charlatans that tell him what he wants to hear, or what is beneficial to them. Truthful man among the courtiers - a rarity.

Go any way you choose. If you want one, and if you want to - in the company. Companions can go with you more or less of the way. But no matter were you are alone or in a crowd, in the end you still have to learn what everyone should know. But only then it will be too late to change anything, it will be too late for anything but regret. Therefore, learn now. No matter how much in the world of a variety of ways, but no one has yet managed to live more than one life, and one way or another, whatever life people choose, most of the time he lives alone.

Well, if someone who due to poor eyesight forced him to consider all the surrounding close to, and even has common sense, he usually tends to describe the world as it really is.

People with the gift to listen and hear, can hear even what is not spoken out loud.

House a homeless man is the whole world.

The gods want to keep us apart for a while, then to we have never left.

To avoid unnecessary and inappropriate for you duties, there are two ways. Should prove or complete their inability to what you want to impose, or, on the contrary, to convince governors that you were too good for the job and fit better.

- Hear me, Associated with Fog, I will tell you about a man I met once in Cuautitlan, country of Tangled Forest. Maybe you know the local inhabitants, one and all, very afraid of death. So this man, with extreme caution, avoiding the slightest threat, and in fact all our life is full of risk. He surrounded himself with healers, priests and magicians, ate only the most nutritious food and was grabbing for every drug, they were talking about, if it improves health. Not a single person in the world never cared about my life better. He lived only for the sake of continuing to live.
Devourer of Blood stopped. I waited, but since no sequel was forthcoming, he asked:
- And what, master, was this man?
- He died.
- Is that all?
- What else ultimately comes with any person? I can't remember what his name was. No one remembers anything about him, except that he lived and then died.

Others were in a hurry, I waited; the other rushed headlong, I exercised caution. I learned to distinguish between the movement as such and the movement aimed at achieving a certain goal. Where others, impatient, saw the village, I saw her inhabitants. Where others saw the inhabitants, I saw individual people. In those cases, when other, sliding down the stranger's gaze, nodded, and hurried on, I saw it up close and remembered what he saw in such detail that we were then able to draw this man.

No God, no goddess has only one face, one name, one destiny. Just as our lake consists of three lakes and one of our God can be United in three persons.

We grow up and look down on the world, and then you get older and look back.
... but can you imagine what it's like to be a child! Behind you have nothing, and all the days and all roads lead onwards and upwards, and no opportunity is not yet lost, not a day not spent in vain, and nothing yet not to be pitied. Everything in the world for you Novo, and the new world...

They mindlessly repeated what came to them from ancestors, handed down from generation to generation. I, however, came to believe that the long-deceased in life were no wiser than we are, and what they died, in no way could they add wisdom. So these make an immutable truth of the word of the dead I always perceived a certain way - as we say, yka apelkanaal, that is not put in the little finger. In your opinion - in a penny.