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- 001
What disgusts one person, somehow doesn’t bother another.
- 002
Money, Mr Dainty, has to circulate, and business has to be kept moving
- 003
You only know how to copy what is good in us, because you don’t understand the bad in us.
- 004
Love doesn’t just mean taking, one also has to be able to give up things, to make sacrifices!
- 005
Ballads aren’t written to be believed. They are written to move their audience.
- 006
My moral dilemmas are resolved for me by my code and education. By my training.
- 007
I’ll hug her, for I feel as though I ought to, not because I want to. I feel nothing.
- 008
I consider waging war against other races idiocy. Perhaps it’s excellent sport for bored and jaded dukes. But not for me.
- 009
The Witcher knows he is superior. He is worthier than you. And that gives him his strength.
- 010
what kind of love would it be if the one who loves were not capable of a little sacrifice.
- 011
There is none. None. It does not exist. The only thing that everyone is destined for is death.
- 012
Destiny alone is insufficient, it’s too little. Something more is needed.
- 013
his commercial instincts stopped him from naming a price
- 014
it’s a base world,’ he finally muttered. ‘But that’s no reason for us all to become despicable. What we need is kindness. My father taught me that and and teach it to my sons.
- 015
we cannot count on fate to smile on us
- 016
It’s not worth worrying about storytellers. If they don’t have enough material they’ll make things up anyway. And if they do have authentic material at their disposal, they’ll distort it.
- 017
Logic is the mother of all knowledge.
- 018
It’s hard to call an accident destiny
- 019
Life is full of hazards, selection also occurs in life. Geralt. Misfortune, sicknesses and wars also select.
- 020
Life must go on
- 021
Life must go on. And what will be, will be. What is destined can’t be avoided, in any case.
- 022
It’s no feat for a soldier to fall, for that is his trade, after all, and life is short anyhow. But the sorcerers could have lived, as long they wished. And they didn’t waver.
- 023
Doubts. Only evil, sir, never has any.
- 024
There is and has never been a war without cruelty.
- 025
Who would want to destroy the world? Wars aren’t waged to destroy. Wars are waged for two reasons. One is power and the other is money.