Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 8 | 535 | And I now saw myself a fool for having espoused codes, for having set above myself ideals. |
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Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 8 | 532 | Here, on this wooden land lost in the delta marshes, I was Ubar. |
| 8 | 533 | I knew now, as I had not before, what men were. |
| 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. |
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Here, on this wooden land lost in the delta marshes, I was Ubar.
I knew now, as I had not before, what men were.
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.
- (Raiders of Gor, Chapter 8)