Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 8 | 537 | There was only gold, and View more quotes about power">power, and the bodies of women, and steel. |
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Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 8 | 534 | I had in misery learned this in myself. |
| 8 | 535 | And I now saw myself a fool for having espoused codes, for having set above myself ideals. |
| 8 | 536 | What could there be that could stand above the steel blade? Was not honor a sham, loyalty and courage a deceit, an illusion of the ignorant, a dream of fools? Was not the only wise man he who observed carefully and when he might took what he could? The determinants of the wise man could not be such phantoms. |
| 8 | 537 | There was only gold, and power, and the bodies of women, and steel. |
| 8 | 538 | I was a strong man. |
| 8 | 539 | I was such that might make a place for himself in a city such as Port Kar. |
| 8 | 540 | "The raft is ready," said Thurnock, his body gleaming sweat, wiping a great forearm across his face. |
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I had in misery learned this in myself.
And I now saw myself a fool for having espoused codes, for having set above myself ideals.
What could there be that could stand above the steel blade? Was not honor a sham, loyalty and courage a deceit, an illusion of the ignorant, a dream of fools? Was not the only wise man he who observed carefully and when he might took what he could? The determinants of the wise man could not be such phantoms.
There was only gold, and power, and the bodies of women, and steel.
I was a strong man.
I was such that might make a place for himself in a city such as Port Kar.
"The raft is ready," said Thurnock, his body gleaming sweat, wiping a great forearm across his face.
- (Raiders of Gor)