Character: Weird

A long time ago... in the valley where four roads converge... we met her too...

If I'll never be able to be in Cornovii... then Cornovii be where I was...

In my opinion, it is despicable to ask for help from some God just because now I need it, then as long as I was healthy and strong, I didn't even remember them.

Without a doubt, irritability is another sign of the coming of old age and weakening eyesight.

- I've never seen such beauty. Do you think in these forests can be centaurs, satyrs and nymphs?
- With the same probability as in any other place.

There was always intelligent and learned people, but in ancient times was full of fools and ignorant. As to what kind of faith to prefer... Personally I think all religions are equally valid - or equally absurd, because all religions are myths, and no myth can't be better than the other, because they are created by people.

Those who prefer antiquity, it seems, never thought about the fact that the pebble is much older than anything ever created by man. Including all the religions ever devised by the ancients. All respectfully talk about these "ancient" and how wise they were. But it's not. Understand, boy. Ancient people, ancient Kingdom, ancient Saga and the prophets - all of them existed long ago, when our world was young and ignorant. So many centuries have passed since then, that even the stars have changed their location. You know that Tuban pointed to true North, and now instead shines the star Phoenix. No, I think that we are much wiser than the ancients - or, at least, should be, - we are the ones who live today, when humanity and the world itself is maturing.

- You don't believe in predictions?
In the name of a sinner by Saint Jerome, of course not! Every time I meet a shaman, astrologer, augur, or someone similar, I remember the warning that Nero received from the Delphic Oracle: "Beware of seventy-three years." Nero was delighted, deciding that he would live to that age. But things turned out differently: it semidesyatiletiyu Galba was deprived of his throne. Nero died at the age of thirty-two years. Predictions are always formulated in such a clever way that they can mean anything. And most of all, boy, believe me, they all mean nothing.

This brave bird has done me nothing but good, and I repaid her what hurt. My friend is dying, and I'm not able to help him!
- Stop whining, - told Weird. - And the eagle would be you despise. See how bravely he held. Boy, each one of us must die of something. And even the predator that you are not going to live forever.

Christian priests have invented something worse than death. They invented hell.

Use your own eyes, experience your mind, to comprehend the essence of things.

Remember, boy, ' he told me, that the gods conceived the horse as untamed, free being. Some suppose that it is designed to carry the rider, but it's not. When you're sitting, you really only burden is a parasite on this beautiful, freedom-loving creature. However, the horse in any case don't have to guess. You should trick her, to get to accept yourself as a partner - not an equal, main.

- The word "cynic" comes from the Greek kynos - "dog" - I said accusingly. - The cynics are so named because you always nigger-lip honest people.
My companion was indignant:
- Many of you know, sucker! Cynics call yourself so, because the dog, if she is offered some treat, he sniffs and examines it carefully, before swallowing.

- I guess, Weird that you are not a Christian. So a lot of the gods you mention.
He replied, somehow mysteriously:
- I once was, but cured.
- Must be you didn't have a good priest. Or the pastor. In short, a clergyman.
Weird grunted.
The word "pastor" means shepherd, which is shearing the sheep. I prefer not to be a sheep.