"Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne."
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"Love rules, but no one knows where it has its throne; in order to know that secret place, you must first submit to Love."
"As he flushed, an unexpected realization hit him. This is the Pope's toilet, he thought. I just took a leak in the Pope's toilet. He had to chuckle. The Holy Throne."
"A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity."
"Tears aren't a woman's only weapon."
"Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy."
"Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow."
"The only game. The game of thrones."
"All dwarfs are bastards in their father's eyes"
"All my life men like you've sneered at me, and all my life I've been knocking men like you into the dust."
"If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth."
"Their woes gone by, and both to heaven upflown, To bow for gratitude before Jove's throne."
"On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least."
"Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world."
"The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne."
"The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water."
"Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace."
"In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them."
"Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next."
"It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game of thrones."