Terry Goodkind citations

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“[…] il n'y a pas de pouvoir plus fort que le désir de protéger son enfant qu'éprouve une mère.”

“Celui qui aide, avait répondu Helsa, trouve sa récompense dans ses actes, et il ne doit rien attendre des autres. Car espérer la reconnaissance des êtres humains est le meilleur moyen de mener une vie remplie d'amertume et de tristesse.”

“Nathan Rahl : La Deuxième leçon dit que les pires maux découlent des meilleures intentions.”

“Kahlan : Ne laisse jamais une fille choisir ton chemin à ta place quand il y a un homme dans son champ de vision.”

“Shota :[…] On y parle de la magie contenue dans le pardon. une magie qui guérit. Absoudre, c'est donner aux autres. Mais aussi recevoir d'eux plus que ce qu'on leur a offert.”

“Zedd : Rien n'est jamais facile…”

“Dans un univers de fiction, comme dans la réalité, un individu, même s'il se croit impuissant, a parfois le pouvoir de changer le cours de l'histoire - et pas toujours dans le bon sens.”

“Richard : Pense à la solution, pas au problème!”

“Le seul souverain dont on doit accepter le joug est la raison.”

“Maître Rahl nous guide! Maître Rahl nous dispense son enseignement! Maître Rahl nous protège! À sa lumière nous nous épanouissons. Dans sa bienveillance, nous nous réfugions. Devant sa sagesse, nous nous inclinons. Nous existons pour le servir et nos vies lui appartiennent.”

“If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives,
then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls.
You think their ways are wrong.
They think you are dinner.”

“Once you teach me something, it's mine to use.”

“Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.”

“The most important rule there is, the Wizard's Sixth Rule: the only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.”

“Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty; liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains as protective armor.”

“Wizard's Fourth Rule
There is magic in sincere forgiveness; in the forgiveness you give, but more so in the forgiveness you receive.”

“Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.”

“In the darkest hours we must believe in ourselves.”

“The Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid; given proper motivation almost anyone will believe almost anything.”

“Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.”

“Only a fool walks into the future backwards.”

“History is rarely made by reasonable men.”

“Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.”

“Right and wrong are not the product of census.”

“Wizard's Seventh Rule
Life is the future, not the past.”

“Bags, and Double Bags!" - Zedd”

“Wizard's Tenth Rule
Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.”

“Wizard's Third Rule
Passion rules reason, for better or for worse.”

“We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward; none other is needed nor better.”

“I'd rather look a fool than be right and fail to act.”

“Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing.”

“Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves; they only think about themselves.”

“Kahlan guide me. Kahlan teach me. Kahlan protect me. In your light I thrive. In your mercy I am sheltered. In your wisdom I am humbled. I live only to love you. My life is yours.”

“Everybody knows it. Wizards are supposed to have beards. It's common knowledge.”

“If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.”

“… think of the solution, not the problem. If your mind was filled only with thoughts of why you were going to lose, then you couldn't think of how to win.”

“There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.”

“I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me!”

“Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt.”