“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
“Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.”
Source: The Color of Magic
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from the play "God".
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Source: Wizard's First Rule
Sallustius Roman philosopher and writer
XII. The origin of evil things; and that there is no positive evil.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
Context: If evil exists it must exist either in Gods or minds or souls or bodies. It does not exist in any God, for all god is good. If anyone speaks of a "bad mind" he means a mind without mind. If of a bad soul, he will make the soul inferior to body, for no body in itself is evil. If he says that evil is made up of soul and body together, it is absurd that separately they should not be evil, but joined should create evil.
