# Quote — Jack Vance, Maske: Thaery

> An idea of great merit! While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.

- Author: [Jack Vance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance.md)
- Book: [Maske: Thaery](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/maske-thaery.md)
- Page: 209
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Vance#Maske:_Thaery_(1976)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/maske-thaery/an-idea-of-great

## More from this book

> “The idea has the virtue of simplicity,” said Nai the Hever gravely. “I confess that it had not occurred to me. I am always reluctant to pull on strings until I learn where they lead and to what they are attached.”

p. 137 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/maske-thaery/the-idea-has.md)

> I see that you will make a competent inspector after all. You have a natural bent for subterfuge and deceit.

p. 84 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/maske-thaery/i-see-that.md)

> Experience is the only source of wisdom: by which I mean, the competent conduct of life.

p. 56 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/maske-thaery/experience-is-the.md)