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For he who is at ease in the darkness, in the dusk, in the stillness before the dawn, who is patient, who waits, it is a friend, a shield, an abetment to one's work. - (Plunder of Gor, Chapter 25, Sentence #20)

"So little light, for so large a place?" I said. "Darkness is not to be feared," he said. "Let others fear it. For he who is at ease in the darkness, in the dusk, in the stillness before the dawn, who is patient, who waits, it is a friend, a shield, an abetment to one's work. Who knows what lurks in the darkness, what might emerge from the night? Too, skills and strengths honed in, and augmented under, adverse conditions prepare one well for the tests of the common day. Why do you think runners train in heavy sand, and hurlers of the stone use stones twice in weight to those they will cast in the games? Why do you think that some, in training beasts, tharlarion, tarns, and slaves, weight saddles, and such things?" "This is a place of police," I said, "a barrack of soldiers?" A fellow at a nearby table laughed, a short, unpleasant sound. "Many warriors," I said, "wear the scarlet of their caste". - (Plunder of Gor)