Quotes by A.H. Septimius

There is no greater service than that rendered to one’s nation, no greater glory one can seek than that in the name of one’s people.

The world needed gentle men to rule if the people were to live in peace, not the warmongers and conniving men she so often witnessed wearing the crimson of the Imperial Council.

It is far too late for bloodless hands.

Above all, he loathed men who beat women; for, real men didn’t exercise their strength on frail creatures, they joined the army and put Shazaria’s enemies in their graves.

We are just peasants with money.

I consider my wife and children in all things; yet, I must consider Amara also.

Do not try to be your father boy, it is a hopeless pursuit, particularly when you, like I, have a father of such colossal proportions.

They will not be swayed, they have power in their sights and are blinded by its alluring glister.

What is rank if not protection from the consequences which fall upon common men?

The cold surface somehow enabled him to remain calm; he kept his eyes upon the summit, awaiting the arrival of reinforcements. The pace of his breathing remained steady, as did his pulse; it was in such moments men came of age; ‘the night is ours, the night is ours’, Jelani whispered.

To discover what becomes of men who do not pay debts owed to Ratilla, one must visit the underworld.

Yet Theo had become engrossed in his own tale, transporting himself back to the night of which he spoke. In the distance, he could again see the faces he had encountered on that fateful night, the twisted bodies and pained expressions of the men who no longer walked the realms of men, but those of the underworld gods.

The ambition of men compels them to break even the most heartfelt vows.

Crowns are hourly tumbling.

Everything has changed, and nothing has altered. Oh, what a fate.