"It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of a… - Lois McMaster Bujold

Hold to virtue — if you can identify it — and trust that the duty set before you is the duty desired of you. And that the talents given to you are the talents you should place in the gods’ service. Believe that the gods ask for nothing back that they have not first lent to you. Not even your life.

Yani seemed a time-traveler who had found out the hard way that he did not like his destination any better than his point of departure, failed to notice the one common factor was himself, and now could not go back.

The man who assumes everything is a lie is at least as mistaken as the one who assumes everything is true.