Wizard's Seventh Rule
The Wizard's Seventh Rule, revealed in The Pillars of Creation, is:
Life is the future, not the past. —Chapter 60, p. 549, U.S. hardcover editionIt is explained in the novel as follows: "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."
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