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Only a fool will kick a stone!

Watch your back! Dead Indians are not as dead as you think.

There is no such thing as moderate caution. You are either very careful or you are dead. You are still walking and breathing, but the final outcome is already predetermined - you are still dead.

Lucrezia used another Borgia recipe: poisoning with a peach cut in half with a knife poisoned on only one side. This trick was used in case the victim showed excessive caution and incredulity.

She lived under the same roof with me and my parents for so long that in the end, fear, caution, observation and cunning developed in her an instinctive and almost prescient knowledge about us, such as a sailor has about the sea, a hunter has about game, and about the disease - if not with a doctor, then at least with many patients.

Courage is not recklessness, and cowardice is not caution. If you are always a coward, you will not protect anything.

- For me it was too personal, very personal. Bach!

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- And you will tell me about caution? We have arrived already!

Discretion is in many ways a commendable quality.

Do you have connections at court? At first, I answered in the negative, somewhat embarrassedly, but then with all the more pride I declared that if I had any connections, I, according to my current notions, would be ashamed to count on them. They grinned; I felt I answered rashly. One should beware of speaking such truths out loud.

All my life I was looking for a balance between reason and feeling, sometimes I was forced to compromise, loving judiciously, compassionate wisely, participating wisely. But with Jamie ... With Jamie I was completely different, for him I sacrificed everything, abandoned logic, forgot caution, plugged my ears so as not to hear the voice of reason. I stopped being the Claire that everyone knew, and became myself, albeit reckless, albeit putting an end to my career, albeit giving up all the comforts of a rational life. From me he received only myself, one that did not need to hide something, and I did not hide: I gave him my body and soul, he saw me in bed, he knew me weak and defenseless, and I trusted him, knowing that he will understand my weaknesses, as he did long ago.

Even the domesticated tiger remains a tiger.

I am a warrior, Lale. Yes, warriors sometimes die. But ordinary people also die. From hunger, hard work, disease. Every day. This is life. It is impossible to hide from all the dangers. And none of us knows how much is meted out to him. But I think it is not so important how long to live. It is important how. A long, empty life of eternal caution and fear? Isn't this torture? No, Lale, I'm not afraid to die. Because I live in full force. I was very lucky. I have good mentors and friends. My destiny. And the ability to implement it. This is what I do in protecting someone. And then there is you. Only for one you this world can be forgiven for all its imperfections.