The poor man has sacrificed himself for others, but he could not help resenting them from time to time. - Michael Moorcock

Her smile was all pride. I had seen many like her in the past. She believed herself cleverer than she was because it suited others to let her maintain that delusion.

Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence—perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could not blame them. After all, they had no future.

For years my lady made her plans. And when the time came to put them into action, how wonderfully she was able to achieve her ambitions."
"Only because few rational people can ever begin to understand such a lust for power," said von Bek feelingly. "There is nothing more puerile than the mind of a tyrant.