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Power's a two-edged sword, Thufir

"One baits an Atreides at his own risk.”

He was a casual killer, and she guessed that this was a Fremen quality.

I must rule with eye and claw - as the hawk among lesser birds.

"I have been a stranger in a strange land,"

"Justice?” The Duke looked at the man. 'Who asks for justice? We

make our own justice. We make it here on Arrakis - win or die.”

'Well, gentlemen,' he said, our civilisation appears to've fallen so deeply into the habit of invasion that we cannot even obey a simple order of the Imperium without the old ways cropping up.'

There's that about this Fremen creature: the drive to manage.

Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.

They have a saying. "Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert."

Из всего того, что я узнала, я сделала важное заключение. Одну вещь надо сделать немедленно и безотлагательно — а именно признать, что в этом мире нет невинных.

Самосознание: это то же самое, что смотреться в зеркала, движущиеся сквозь Вселенную и вбирающие по пути все новые и новые изображения — бесконечная рефлексия. Бесконечное при таком взгляде представляется конечным. Вот прямой аналог сознания, которое по кусочкам собирает образ бесконечности.

“A world is supported by four things: the learning of the

wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.”

The moons will be your friends, the sun your enemy.

"I see in the future what I've seen in the past. You well know the pattern of our affairs, Jessica. The race knows its own mortality and fears stagnation of its heredity.”

It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.

"We Bene Gesserit sift people to find the humans."

"Pain," she sniffed. "A human can override any nerve in the body.”

"A duke's son must know about poisons,"