The Young Reed Dies So Easily. Beginnings

One Uses Power By Grasping It Lightly. To Grasp Too Strongly Is To Be Taken Over By Power, And Thus To Become Its Victim.

Seek Freedom And Become Captive Of Your Desires. Seek Discipline And Find Your Liberty.

To Endure Oneself May Be The Hardest Task In The Universe. You Cannot Hire A Wise Man Or Any Other Intellect To Solve It For You. There's No Writ Of Inquest Or Calling Of Witness To Provide Answers.

There Is In Each Of Us An Ancient Force That Takes And An Ancient Force That Gives. A Man Finds Little Difficulty Facing That Place Within Himself Where The Taking Force Dwells, But It's Almost Impossible For Him To See Into The Giving Force Without Changing Into Something Other Than Man. For A Woman, The Situation Is Reversed. ... These Things Are So Ancient Within Us That They're Ground Into Each Separate Cell Of Our Bodies... It's As Easy To Be Overwhelmed By Giving As By Taking.

We Bene Gesserit Sift People To Find The Humans.