What is gold, when compared to the honor of your city and caste? A Warrior does not allow the baubles of wealth to glitter so brightly that they obscure the truth.
~ 34th Aphorism of the Codes ~
In battle, it is sometimes wise to allow your enemy access to a bridge, which can be easily gained, and which seems to offer both profit and succor. No enemy will press easily forward when such a bridge can be crossed to rearward. Let any such bridge be clothed in glittering jewels, that it may not be easily ignored. Be warned! The wise man does not cross such a bridge swiftly or unwarily.
~ 35th Aphorism of the Codes ~
The gentlest of streams can halt an army. The tiniest of osts can fell a man. In the humblest things there are worth, and the simpliest of things can conquer.
~ 36th Aphorism of the Codes ~
If a Free Woman should kneel before you in submission, let you claim her life. This done, let you keep her as slave, or slay her that she not live in shame ever more.
~ 37th Aphorism of the Codes ~
Let the Free Companion of the Warrior who has dishonored himself be locked in a collar of slavery by he who has conquered, that all may see and know that the honor of the fallen is as naught. The Companion of the dishonored is the property of his destroyer, and may be used as he sees fit.
~ 38th Aphorism of the Codes ~
Who shall cage the larl? Who shall halt the bosk? Who shall elude the sleen? When you would be caged, be as the larl. When you would be halted, be as the bosk. When you would be eluded, be as the sleen.
~ 39th Aphorism of the Codes ~
The sword, which can be bought, is not worth owning.
~ 40th Aphorism of the Codes ~
Each Warrior is a weapon unto himself. Those who would praise a weapon for the beauty of its hilt and pommel are seldom wise enough to appreciate the value of a well-tempered blade.
~ 41st Aphorism of the Codes ~
It is wisdom to know others; it is Mastery to know oneself. The Master of men is powerful; the Master of himself is greater. Endurace is to live long and die; Mastery is to die and not perish.
~ 42nd Aphorism of the Codes ~
Those who know, speak not! Those who speak, know not.
~ 43rd Aphorism of the Codes ~
Watch. Observe. See. Know. Understand. Act.
~ 44th Aphorism of the Codes ~
Victory is a state of being, which begins as a state of mind. The one cannot help but follow the other.
~45th Aphorism of the Codes ~
Alive, a Warrior is supple and flexible. In death, in becomes unbending and stiff. So too do all things which live. To become inflexible is to die.
~ 46th Aphorism of the Codes ~
A Warrior is not a Warrior who does not honor his fellow Warriors. Let all those who are of the scarlet caste do honor to one another. In honoring your fellow, you honor yourself.
~ 47th Aphorism of the Codes ~
When you challenge a Warrior, you challenge his steel. Give him his steel or do not challenge him.
~ 48th Aphorism of the Codes ~
The concerns of Warriors are not for the ears of slaves.
