An itchy man is prey to discontent; he'll suage his flea bites with the blood of kings." Surely the common man wouldn't want that!" "What common men … - Sheri S. Tepper

Only fools insist upon life at any cost.... Others would say that life may be laid down when it becomes too heavy. Where does it go, after all, but into the keeping of the Powers who gave it and will give it once again?

"I do not like the thought of compulsion."
He shook his head at me. "Not compulsion, Jinian. Information, more like. It is as though I had been given a map which showed both the good roads and the swamps. Is it compulsion to avoid the swamps if one knows they are there?"

We have a saying, we Gharm. A man who claims to carry the truth, carries an empty sack.