ORIGINAL ENGLISH PASSAGE
When I set out to lead humanity along my Golden Path I promised a lesson their bones would remember. I know a profound pattern humans deny with words even while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quiet, conditions they call peace. Even as they speak, they create seeds of turmoil and violence.
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These words justify Leto’s rule in his own language. Readers can assess the observation’s force separately from the oppression applied in its name.
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Frank Herbert
Chapterhouse: Dune · Chapter epigraph on the Golden Path
Selected from the supplied English EPUB. The commentary is Dunepedia’s reading note.