[h]e Who Fears To Lose

It Would Be A Fine Thing If War Could Be Conducted As A Game Where No Lives Were Lost. At The End Of A Battle Combatants Could Meet [...] And Drink And Talk.

I Have Discovered In My Long Life That There Are Many Words And Phrases Which Have More Power Than Any Spell Of Magick. The Most Well-known Of These Is, Of Course, I Love You. But By Far The Most Deadly Is, If Only. For These Two Words Can Strip A Man's Strength, His Courage And His Confidence. They Become The Father Of Regret And Anguish And Pain.

True. The One Certainty About Riding, Braygan, Is That - At Some Time - You Will Fall Off. It Is A Fact. Another Fact You Might Like To Consider, In Your Life Of Perpetual Terror, Is That You Will Die. We Are All Going To Die, Some Of Us Young, Some Of Us Old, Some Of Us In Our Sleep, Some Of Us Screaming In Agony. We Cannot Stop It, We Can Only Delay It.

... Life Can Be Savored Only If You Look To The Future And Leave Vengeance To The Gods

None Of Us Can Choose The Manner Of Our Passing.