What cannot be borne must not be forgotten. What can be never be restored nor repaired must instead have a reckoning.
Do not be careless in your obligations to others. Honest enemies may make peace, but a false friend, who gives cruelty where they owe kindness, has earned the greater wrath.
[Parenthood is the greatest obligation, but not the only one.]
[ Zerxus finds himself smiling as he listens, even as his own guilt - and his own bitterly betrayed anguish - blooms in his chest. ]
Principles anyone seeking vengeance would be better off having.
[ Acknowledging the possibility of mending what's been broken, not forbidding peace when it can be found, demanding accountability from yourself as much as anyone else. ]
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Weird to mention it, though.
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It's just an example.
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Parents owe their children a life, not the other way around.
[Maybe it's not a broad enough application for what Zerxus is talking about. But it's a principle that's been on his mind.]
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That definitely sounds like guidance a lot of people could stand to hear.
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Do not be careless in your obligations to others. Honest enemies may make peace, but a false friend, who gives cruelty where they owe kindness, has earned the greater wrath.
[Parenthood is the greatest obligation, but not the only one.]
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Principles anyone seeking vengeance would be better off having.
[ Acknowledging the possibility of mending what's been broken, not forbidding peace when it can be found, demanding accountability from yourself as much as anyone else. ]
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