" Hold to virtue—if you can identify it—and trust that the duty set before you is the duty desired of you. And that the talents given to you are the talents you should place in the gods’ service. Believe that the gods ask for nothing back that they have not first lent to you. Not even your life. "

― Lois McMaster Bujold , The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods, #1)