Liber Martis - Chapter 71

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The wolf would not accept the chain unless a god placed his hand between its teeth.

Tyr knew the bargain was false and entered it anyway, because sometimes order is purchased with something that cannot be returned.

When the jaws closed, he did not call pain injustice.

A law that costs the lawgiver nothing is easy to praise.

The hand was lost; the world remained.

Do not imitate sacrifice merely for the beauty of scars. A wound without necessity is vanity.

Courage is not ignorance of the price. Courage has read the price twice.

The warrior of law binds first his own appetite.

If you demand that another bleed for order, show what of yours is already on the table.

The missing hand became a better scepter than an uninjured fist.