Sic • Parvis • Magna 

The  obstacle is the path.

...and every story must grow old.      

There's a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place, where the colors are brighter, the air is softer, and the mornings were fragrant than ever again.

What you have, many can have. 
But what you are, no one can 
be.

The secrets of the art are best learned in secret. 
Oscar Wilde 

Conscience is a man's compass. 
Vincent van Gogh

Primum non nocere [first do no harm]

What you allow, will continue

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
Oscar Wilde

One has to act as if one has no doubt that people will do as one wishes. In most cases, that will take them by surprise so much that they forget to refuse.
Rikkard Ambrose

You could hate people even though you were better than they were. Because you were better. 
Nemesis by Jo Nesbø

Out of sight, out of mind.

Whether to take the risk or not. . . the eternal dilemma.
Redbreast by Jo Nesbø

Don't be silly, you're taking the fall.
Sam Drake, Uncharted 4

Knowledge is power is time is money. 
Mr Ambrose

Within you is the ability to do wonderful things. 
Also within you is the ability to sabotage yourself from doing these things.
You wield a double-edged sword, one that can be used to cut down your obstacles and, also yourself.

Every story ends with a new beginning.