# Quote — David Eddings, The Redemption of Althalus

> “Why must they always set fires?” Bheid asked Althalus as the two of them stood on the portico of the temple waiting and watching the columns of smoke rising from various quarters of the city.
>
> “I’m not really sure, Bheid,” Althalus confessed. “It might just be accidental. Looters are usually fairly excited, and sometimes they get careless. My best guess, though, is that the fires are being set deliberately to punish the noblemen for their bad habits.”
>
> “That’s pure stupidity, Althalus,” Bheid objected.
>
> “Of course it is. It’s the nature of mobs to be stupid. A mob’s only as clever as its stupidest member.”

- Author: [David Eddings](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-eddings.md)
- Book: [The Redemption of Althalus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-eddings/the-redemption-of-althalus.md)
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> “Sick, isn’t it?” Dhakan replied. “Our glorious, but slightly warped, leader hasn’t let him out of her sight since the day he was captured.”

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> “Surely you don’t agree with that apostate!”
>
> “I was talking about his skill, not his message, Aleikon ... He’s good. There’s no question about that.”

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> “I’m pretty good at that. There were a lot of things I did when I was just a boy that I didn’t tell her about. I didn’t come right out and lie to her, of course. A boy should never lie to his mother, but now and then things sort of slipped my mind. You know how that can happen.”
>
> “Oh, yes.” Althalus laughed. “Things have been slipping my mind for as long as I can remember.”

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