“You are caught in the vicious cycle. You are hesitant because you are not used for things going your way. And things will never go your way because you remain hesitant. You see what you want, become hesitant, and the door of opportunity closes. It happens again. And again. And again. With each choice towards Inaction, you reject yourself a little bit more.”

“You are caught in the vicious cycle. You are hesitant because you are not used for things going your way. And things will never go your way because you remain hesitant. You see what you want, become hesitant, and the door of opportunity closes. It happens again. And again. And again. With each choice towards Inaction, you reject yourself a little bit more.”

“It's a pook, a messenger...spy is more like it," Kern explained sourly. "This one will tattle, and I'll never hear the end of it when I go back." An eyebrow lifted. "Consorting with a human.”

“Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says.”

“Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work.”

“What avail is honour or a sword against a pen?”

“I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craftsman I was. They cared not.”

“I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus)”

“Threatened men live long.”

“Witta feared nothing - except to be poor.”