{
  "type": "quote",
  "site": {
    "name": "Leafy Quotes",
    "language": "en",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com"
  },
  "formats": "Every page has two versions with the same data: JSON (the page address + .json) and markdown (the page address + .md). Append .json or .md to any `url` in this document.",
  "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/blade-of-tyshalle/i-respect-what",
  "json": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/blade-of-tyshalle/i-respect-what.json",
  "markdown": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/blade-of-tyshalle/i-respect-what.md",
  "id": "30915d6e-2672-4fff-bb64-be208be1f14d",
  "slug": "i-respect-what",
  "text": "\"I respect what is repectable,\" Tan'elkoth replied. \"To ask for respect where none has been earned is childish maundering.And what is repectable, in the end, save service? Even your idol Jefferson is, in the end, measured by how well he served the species. The prize of individualism--its goal--is self-actualization, which is only another name for vanity. We do not admire men for achieving self-actualization; we admire self-actualization when its end result is a boon to humanity.\"",
  "language": "en",
  "author": {
    "name": "Matthew Stover",
    "slug": "matthew-stover",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover"
  },
  "book": {
    "title": "Blade of Tyshalle",
    "slug": "blade-of-tyshalle",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/blade-of-tyshalle"
  },
  "character": null,
  "chapter": null,
  "chapter_parent": null,
  "page": 75,
  "verified": false,
  "original": null,
  "other_languages": [],
  "topics": [
    {
      "name": "respect",
      "slug": "respect",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect"
    },
    {
      "name": "individualism",
      "slug": "individualism",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/individualism"
    }
  ],
  "source": {
    "name": "Wikiquote",
    "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Matthew_Stover#Blade_of_Tyshalle_(2001)",
    "license": {
      "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
    }
  },
  "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:44",
  "more_from_book": [
    {
      "id": "f9ac1a1c-e3e1-4492-a028-8bf96fbd53e3",
      "slug": "i-read-once",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/blade-of-tyshalle/i-read-once",
      "text": "I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 23,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "death",
          "slug": "death",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death"
        },
        {
          "name": "growing up",
          "slug": "growing-up",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/growing-up"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Matthew_Stover#Blade_of_Tyshalle_(2001)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:44"
    },
    {
      "id": "f1898918-c27c-4a15-b942-4dc2a9770ff1",
      "slug": "the-problem-with",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/blade-of-tyshalle/the-problem-with",
      "text": "\"The problem with happy endings,\" Tan'elkoth said, \"is that nothing is ever truly over.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 89,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "life",
          "slug": "life",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Matthew_Stover#Blade_of_Tyshalle_(2001)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:44"
    },
    {
      "id": "ea7def9e-c1ba-4207-abc9-b91a82fdfa4c",
      "slug": "when-the-gods",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/blade-of-tyshalle/when-the-gods",
      "text": "When the gods would punish us, they answer our prayers.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 92,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "irony",
          "slug": "irony",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/irony"
        },
        {
          "name": "prayer",
          "slug": "prayer",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/prayer"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Matthew_Stover#Blade_of_Tyshalle_(2001)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:44"
    }
  ]
}