Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 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. |
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Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 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. |
| 8 | 539 | I was such that might make a place for himself in a city such as Port Kar. |
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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.
I was such that might make a place for himself in a city such as Port Kar.
- (Raiders of Gor, Chapter 8)