Maester Aemon – Character Quotes

What is honor... compared to a woman's love? And what is duty... against the feel of a newborn son in your arms? Or a brother's smile?

You must make that choice yourself... and live with it for the rest of your days. As I have.

We're all human. Oh, we aII do our duty when there's no cost to it. Honor comes easy then. Yet... sooner or later... in every man's life there comes a day when it is not easy. A day when he must choose.

Nothing makes the past a sweeter place to visit than the prospect of imminent death.

Love is the death of duty.

Oh, we aII do our duty when there's no cost to it.

Old age is a wonderful source of ironies, if nothing else.