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Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.

"Ah, but when the queen proclaims one king and the Hand another, whose peace do they protect?" Lord Petyr flicked at the dagger with his finger, setting it spinning in place. When at last it slowed to a stop, the blade pointed at Littlefinger. "Why, there's your answer. They follow the man who pays them."

In life, the monsters win.

A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.

The world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill.

Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.

"What strange fit of madness led you to tell the queen that you had learned the secret of Joffrey's birth?"

"The madness of mercy."

Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath them.

When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.

Is it so far from madness to wisdom?

I swear to you, I was never so alive as when I was winning this throne, or so dead as now that I've won it.

He was always clever, even as a boy, but it is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.