Thulean Archives

• Don't walk barefooted into a chestnut forest.
• Death smiles at it all, all a man can do is to smile back.
• Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
• Everyone's friend is everyone's fool.
• Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact, everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
• Many have too much, but no one has enough.
• The nut does not reveal the tree it contains.
• One should go invited to a friend with good fortune, but uninvited if he has problems.
• When men speak ill of you, live so that nobody will believe them.
• All those who carry wreaths are not virgins.
• A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
• Cowards may die many times before their deaths.
• Generous and brave men live the best.
• Fear the reckoning of those you have wronged.
• Birds of a feather flock together.
• Similar children play best together.
• Good health is above wealth.
• There is no death for the honourable, only a change of bodies.
• A good leader makes a good follower.
• Either conform to the customs or flee the realm.
• Avarice increases with wealth.
• The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruits are sweet.
• Much skill is not a heavy load to carry.
• Better unlearned and bright than erudite and foolish.
• Pestilence follows famine.
• Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.
• Better go without healing than call for an unskilled healer.
• Cheerful company shortens the journey.
• The worst deaf is the one who does not want to hear.
• A man devoid of religion is like a horse without a bridle.
• The wand is mightier than the sword.
• A beaten track is a safe one.
• Everyone's friend is faithful to no one.
• The burden of someone else is always light.
• Nowhere are there more hiding places than in the heart.
• Swimming is easy if someone holds your head above water.
• What is the use of running when we are not on the right track?
• Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
• A learned man has always wealth in himself.
• A wise companion is half the journey.
• Do not cry before you are hurt.
• It is easier to hurt than to heal.
• We are more than the sum of our knowledge, we are products of our imagination.
• We have not inherited Thule from our ancestors, we have borrowed it from our children.
• Fish and guests smell at three days old.
• Death answers before she is asked.
• Where many die there is no fear of death.
• A door must be either shut or open.
• The sky is no less blue only because the blind cannot see it.
• If you fear death you are already dead.
• Better to turn than go astray.
• Where there is a sea there are pirates.
• Even the best climber may fall.
• There is nothing sinister in sorcery, only in the hearts of men.
• Every light is not the sun.
• In calm water every ship has a good captain.
• Always watch and follow nature.
• Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
• Whatever you do, do with all your might.
• Big flies break the web.
• A bird in the hand is better than ten birds on the roof.
• Prevention is better than cure.
• Straight ahead is always shortest, but not always best.
• Shame is worse than death.
• Dog does not eat dog.
• He who becomes a sheep will be eaten by the wolf.
• Good habits result from resisting temptation.
• Rather suffer for the truth than be rewarded for lies.
• Worthless is the advice of fools.
• A bee does not touch a withered flower.
• No man was ever wise by chance.
• A man of gladness seldom falls into madness.
• Better an empty pouch than wrongly gotten money.
• Who today was a warrior of might and tomorrow be a mindless wight
• You cannot kill what is already dead.
• Death is often the best healer.
• Good blood will never lie.
• The wolf and the dog do not play together.
• Better whole than mended well.
• A fox is not caught twice in the same trap.
• The sun passes over filth and is not defiled.
• When I did well, I heard it never, when I did ill, I heard it ever.
• Brawl with a pig and you will go away with his stink.
• Death cannot kill what never dies.
• Faint hearts never win fair ladies.
• When in Troskynia(?), do as the Troskynians.
• The bee has a sting, but honey too.
• A fair death honors the whole life.
• Still waters run deep.
• He who governs his home, governs his life.
• Haste makes waste.
• A wise man's heart is seldom cheerful.
• Ignorance is curable, stupidity is not.
• Advice should be viewed from behind.
• The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
• Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
• There is no place like home.
• You shall befriend with your friend and his friends, but no man shall ever befriend with a friend of an enemy.

I have been reading proverbs that have been included in this book, Mythic Fantasy Role Playing Game. Thank you for watching.