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22/04/2007
"Knowledge of our world is to be nurtured like a precious flower, for it is the most precious thing we have. Wherefore guard the word written and heed words unwritten-and set them down ere they fade." – Alaundo of Candlekeep

6/10/2015
"On my word as a sage nothing within these pages is false, but not all of it may prove to be true." – Elminster of Shadowdale

2/07/2020
"...Knowledge of our world is to be nurtured like a precious flower, for it is the most precious thing we have. Wherefore guard the word written and heed words unwritten—and set them down ere they fade... Learn then, well, the arts of reading, writing, and listening true, and they will lead you to the greatest art of all: understanding." – Alaundo of Candlekeep

14/10/2020
"The gods do not grant to us all The shining mantle of the hero. Do what you can, And it will be enough." — Baerauble, Lord High Mage of Cormyr, inscribed on his tomb and a popular Cormyrean saying

23/02/2021
"Everyone needs to make his own life for himself, though. Cyrrollalee knows, I loved my mother, but she never understood why I chose music over merchandising, so I hit the road. The people who love us the most have more trouble accepting that we're different from them than strangers do." — Olive Ruskettle, famed halfling bard

28/05/2021
"Laws and rules must be observed at all times. Even by kings. For if a realm is a bright-armored knight, every rule broken is a piece torn away from his armor that a traitor's blade can thrust through later, with its wielder crying, "But in days gone by, so-and-so set aside this rule, why then cannot I?""

— Vangerdahast Aeiulvana, on the laws of Cormyr

30/07/2021
"...Knowledge of our world is to be nurtured like a precious flower, for it is the most precious thing we have. Wherefore guard the word written and heed words unwritten—and set them down ere they fade... Learn then, well, the arts of reading, writing, and listening true, and they will lead you to the greatest art of all: understanding." – Alaundo of Candlekeep

12/08/2021
"Cross not a librarian, for they hold the keys to all lore." – Old Faerunian saying

01/01/2022
"One day we were riding across the Stonelands some leagues to the east of here when we saw a huge white fortress perched high on a hill. I asked him what he thought of the place. He said to me, 'Well, it's white on this side.' ...Don't jump to conclusions, lad! That's what it means. Believe what your eyes tell you, but only what they tell you, and no more." – The paladin of Tyr known only as Trooper.

28/02/2022
"Hope is the key. The future will be better than the past, or the present. Without this belief, there is only the self-indulgent, ultimately empty striving of the present, as in drow society, or simple despair, the time of life wasted in waiting for death." – Drizzt Do'Urden

25/06/2022
"All beings should walk free of fear, with the right to live their lives as they wish." – Watchword of the Harpers

21/01/2023
"There is no satisfaction for the Mage who desires more than enough." – The Epic Urus

6/03/2023
"Do you always turn to the exciting bits in any book you open? The "And then the dragon breathed fire, and the tower toppled slowly, screaming mages plunging to their death" scenes? No?

''Well, what then? Oh. You look for the deep, insightful passages that lay bare the secrets of All That Is?''

''Dear, dear. You've got hold of the wrong book. This is one of the other sort, and the dragon's just about to..." – Slumbertime Stories for Sprigs'' by Anastra Syluné Silverhand

13/05/2023
"What is most important, of all I can tell thee of the Realms? The awe and wonder and mystery ye find there, of course. For if ye have not these things, what have ye? Mere survival. And while survival is a wondrous thing—sometimes a most wondrous thing—it is but the rock upon which all else must stand. A rock is proud and hard, but also a thing cold and bare. So keep well awe and wonder and mystery—and know delight and excitement all thy days." – Elminster