You’ve already paid the price for doing business in Sanctuary. It isn’t your life, it’s your soul … your humanity. You’ve exchanged it for gold, and in my opinion, it was a poor bargain.

Robert Lynn Asprin &al., Thieves’ World [Amazon, Publisher, Local Library]

Hermetic quote Asprin Thieves World already paid the price business life soul humanity exchanged for gold poor bargain

Consider also:

  1. “He would just have to earn it honestly. Disgusting, the depths to which he had sunk.”
  2. “Then, my spirit knew her For One beyond all song–my poor heart turned: Then, ’tis no wonder. And my passion burned Mightier yet than ever. To renew her Venom from those pure eyes? And yet I yearned. Still, I stepped onward. Credit me so far! The harlot had my soul: my will, the star!”
  3. “And remember, dying is a serious business. If a man dies with a sin on his soul, he goes to Spain.”