Quote #73

But remember, please, the Law by which we live, We are not built to comprehend a lie, We can neither love nor pity nor forgive, If you make a slip in handling us you die! We are greater than the Peoples or the Kings - Be humble, as you crawl beneath our rods! - Our touch can alter all created things, We are everything on earth - except The Gods!

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