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You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will.

Another Festival so soon?' the Lord Leto asked. 'It has been ten years,' the majordomo said. Do you think by this exchange that the Lord Leto betrays an ignorance of time's passage?

Humans are almost always lonely.

A Fremen dies when he is too long from the desert; this we call 'the water sickness.'

[They] had made the fatal decision: they'd chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation.

Fortune passes everywhere

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear.

And he saw a vision of armor. The armor was not his own skin; it was stronger than plasteel. Nothing penetrated his armor—not knife or poison or sand, not the dust of the desert or its desiccating heat.

a ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.

Here lies a toppled god \ His fall was not a small one. \ We did but build his pedestal, \ A narrow and a tall one.

The spirit of Muad'Dib is more than words, more than the letter of the Law that arises from his name. Muad'Dib must always be that inner outrage against the complacently powerful, against the charlatans and the dogmatic fanatics.

"There existed no need on Caladan to build a physical paradise or a paradise of the mind — we could see the actuality all around us. And the price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life — we went soft, we lost our edge."

What is the most immediate danger to my stewardship? I will tell you. It is a true visionary, a person who has stood in the presence of God with the full knowledge of where he stands.

Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.

Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!

The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer.

Above all else, the mentat must be a generalist, not a specialist. It is wise to have decisions of great moment monitored by generalists. Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos.

War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.

What religion and self-interest cannot hide, governments can.