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A man’s word must be as good as an oath sworn beneath the Light or it was no good at all.

— Robert Jordan New Spring (2004)

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Good and Evil

More quotes by Robert Jordan

Jump in a hole without looking, and there’ll be a snake in it every time.

The Great Hunt (1990)

Always plan for the worst, child; that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones.

The Dragon Reborn (1991)

It is better to guide people than try to hammer them into a line.

The Shadow Rising (1992)

When there are fish heads and blood in the water, you don’t need to see the silverpike to know they are there.

The Dragon Reborn (1991)

To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.

Knife of Dreams (2005)

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Socrates

I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

Edward Teller

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

C. S. Lewis God in the Dock (1970)

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

Henry David Thoreau Walden (1854)

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