# Quote — Steven Erikson, House of Chains

> With ever greater frequency they annihilate themselves, for success breeds contempt for those very qualities that purchased it.

- Author: [Steven Erikson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-erikson.md)
- Book: [House of Chains](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-erikson/house-of-chains.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-erikson/house-of-chains/with-ever-greater

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> An army that waits is soon an army at war with itself.

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> But now Apsalar was trying to tell him that competence was not justification. That necessity demanded its own path and there was no virtue to be found at its heart.

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> From the sun-drenched south slopes of Gris, where grow the finest grapes this world has seen. Is mine an informed opinion, you are wondering? Most assuredly so, lass, since I hold a majority interest in said vineyards —

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