The Grass Crown

Dead men kept the best secrets!

High in favor one moment, head separated from body the next.

No matter how illustrious our ancestors might have been, in the end we still come to depend upon our progeny.

Rumor is one thing. A witness is quite another.

never fight a war on your own home ground—let it be someone else’s property which suffers.

When a man steals what he regards as rightly belonging to him, he does not call it stealing. He calls it repossession.