"Pride, as you can see, can destroy even a dragon – and even one who serves the most ancient of the kind deiti

"Pride, as you can see, can destroy even a dragon – and even one who serves the most ancient of the kind deities. How blind I have been! How ridiculously stupid! Thank you for opening my eyes. Without you, who knows how many more centuries I'd have driven the world's greatest heroes to their doom, serving evil and all the while imagining that I'm doing good!"