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A throne is simply a more elevated seat from which to witness the arrival of the same ruin that visits the man who built the scaffold.

They will write histories of this great change while forgetting to count the women who washed the banners and paid the price when the old guard came collecting.

In the quiet office after the concession speech, a single portrait remains on the floor, its glass cracked precisely across the painted smile.

The prince who builds his state on the loyalty of bought men will find their price has simply been met by a higher bidder.

The true cause was not the election but the accumulated fear among his own allies that his interest had fatally diverged from theirs.

Every man who declares his capital the center of the universe is merely confessing he has never truly looked at the map.

In Damascus and in Delhi, I have observed that the ruler who stays too long at the feast is the last to notice the servants have stopped refilling his cup.

Before you celebrate the demolition of a fortress, you must first ask why so many people willingly took shelter inside it for so long.

Hateful things: the sound of a crowd that has learned its own strength, heard from inside a suddenly too-quiet palace.

A fever breaks not when the humors are defeated but when the body's own rhythm remembers the music of balance.

One notes the precise moment the local guides stop looking to the old mountain for direction and begin consulting their own compasses.

You do not wait for a sign from the heavens; you move when the guard changes and the path is clear.

Power concedes nothing without a demand; the sixteen-year demand simply became too large to fit inside any ballot box they had designed.