Dragonfired

That’s old thinking,” said the Goblin. “Pillage a town’s gold, and you’ll be rich for a day. Make a town systemically dependent on services that only you provide, and you’ll be rich for a lifetime.

It's way easier to tear a kingdom down than to fix it. Utopia's never gonna happen. At least total annihilation might be possible

Eventually he stood and pulled a slim volume off his bookshelf. About halfway through the thin leather journal he found the most often cited quote of the Third Age Imperial omnimancer Salam Abdus. Note, dear reader, that destiny is like a cat that you wish to call to you. Give it your attention, try to coax it into place, and it shall have naught to do with you. Play coy as a maiden, and it shall surely come running. Yet turn your back on the bastard at your deepest peril. Jynn took a deep breath. Regrettably little remained of Adbus’ teachings; he was most famous for this observation being quoted in Nove’s Lex Infortunii, wherein the great philosopher-scientist noted that shortly after writing the quote, Abdus was eaten by a Dire Ocelot.

Well, all the world’s evils are only possible to fix in ourselves,

All the world’s evils are so much easier to spot in someone else.

It means letting go of the anger, of the hurt. You still know you felt it, and you still remember it, but you won’t let it control you. Because hanging on to the pain keeps hurting you. It holds you back. Releasing it sets you free, and freedom is power.

How can ye save the world when the world seems like the problem?” Gorm asked. “How do ye solve a problem when the only visible solution is the same problem again?

Her father, in his wisdom, had once remarked that the only difference between being on track and stuck in a rut is the intended destination.

Nove’s fourth principle of universal irony proved, by way of substitution, that planning increases the possibility of an unforeseen outcome.

In any economy where knowledge has value, ignorance does as well. Brokers make money by knowing key information; they make fortunes by ensuring that other brokers remain unaware or unsure of the same information until after critical trades. Governments rise and fall based on the careful cultivation and utilization of mass ignorance.

Nove's fourth principle of universal irony proved, by way of substition, that planning increases the probability of an unforeseen outcome