Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid
Explanation: People will believe any lie, either because they want it to be true, or because they are afraid it is. This is one of the most powerful rules. Essentially, the rule is you can trick someone without any magic by using their wants or fears against them. This cautions all of us to think twice about things. Do we believe something because we want it to be true or fear that it is?
Wizard's Second Rule: The greatest harm can result from the best intentions
Explanation: Sometimes, doing what one thinks is right can cause more harm than good. Violation of this rule can cause anything from discomfort, to disaster, to death. It prompts all of us to try and look to the future and see the consequences of our actions.
Wizard's Third Rule: Passion rules reason
Explanation: Letting your emotions control your reason may cause trouble for yourself and those around you.
Wizard's Fourth Rule: There is magic in sincere forgiveness you grant, but more so, in forgiveness you receive
Explanation: Forgiving and being forgiven are powerful elements of healing, not for your body, but your soul. Forgiving others is healthy for you, but being forgiven is even more powerful. There would be far more peace in the world by using this rule.
Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie
Explanation: People will lie to deceive you from what they truly mean to do. Watching the actions they take will prove their true intentions.
Wizard's Sixth Rule: The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason
Explanation: The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists, exists; what is, is. From this irreducible, bedrock principle, all knowledge is built. This is the foundation from which life is embraced.", "Reason is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they a means to discover them. Reason is our only way of grasping reality--it's our basic tool of survival. Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason's light.
Wizard's Seventh Rule: Life is the future, not the past
Explanation: The past can teach us, through experience, how to accomplish things in the future, comfort us with cherished memories, and provide the foundation of what has already been accomplished. But only the future holds life. To live in the past is to embrace what is dead. To live life to its fullest, each day must be created anew. As rational, thinking beings we must use our intellect, not a blind devotion to what has come before, to make rational choices.
Wizard's Eighth Rule: Deserve victory
Explanation: Be justified in your convictions. Be completely committed. Earn what you want and need.
Wizard's Ninth Rule: A contradiction cannot exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole
Explanation: To believe in a contradiction is to abdicate your belief in the existence of the world around you and the nature of the things in it, to instead embrace any random impulse that strikes your fancy--to imagine something is real simply because you wish it were. A thing is what it is, it is itself. There can be no contradictions. In reality, contradictions cannot exist. To believe in them you must abandon the most important thing you possess: your rational mind. The wager for such a bargain is your life. In such an exchange, you always lose what you have at stake.
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