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 This is a list of quotes spoken by the [[Ur-Didact]]. For quotes by the [[IsoDidact]], see [[IsoDidact/Quotes|here]].
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 *"In this hour of victory, we taste only defeat. I ask, why? We are Forerunners, guardians of all that exists. The roots of the galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms... And the impervious shelter beneath which it has prospered. I stand before you, accused of the sin of ensuring Forerunner ascendancy. Of attempting to save us from this fate where we are forced to... recede. Humanity stands as the greatest threat in the galaxy. Refusing to eradicate them is a fool's gambit. We squander eons in the darkness, while they seize our triumphs for their own. The Mantle of responsibility for all things belongs to Forerunners alone. Think of my acts as you will. But do not doubt the reality: the Reclamation... has already begun. And we are hopeless to stop it." - Epilogue speech.
-===[[Terminal/Halo 4|Terminals]]===
+===[[Terminal (Halo 4)|Terminals]]===
 *"Shall we take revenge? Abandon the Mantle and all that its philosophy has given us these thousand generations?" - In response to the Librarian's initial agreement with the Council's plans to eradicate the humans for their violent incursions into Forerunner territory.
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 *"I will allow you a moment more to fire the weapon, human. I will grant you the gift of dying a warrior." - To [[Frederic-104]]
 *"We are done here." - After Fred-104 shoots him with a [[Z-110 Boltshot]]
-*"The Control Room...? The Monitor pretends to aid the huamns, but advances my plans instead? No. Too simple. There is something I do not yet comprehend."
+*"The Control Room...? The Monitor pretends to aid the humans, but advances my plans instead? No. Too simple. There is something I do not yet comprehend."
 *"Where are your brethren?" - To John-117 after he arrives to Installation 03's Control Room alone.
 *"You carry no weapon."
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 *"You - " - Ur-Didact's final word to John before being composed.
 *"Nooooooooo!" - as he is composed.
+==[[Halo: Epitaph]]==
+*'''Gravemind''': "Shadow-of-Sundered-Star… Didact. Protector of the Ecumene… We meet again. The one you first met on [[Charum Hakkor]]. We are the same. [[Primordial|That one]]. This one. Others."
+*'''Ur-Didact''': "You have damned the entire galaxy for revenge ten million years old!"
+*'''Gravemind''': "Forerunners will know pain as we have known pain. We took away the Mantle of Responsibility and like petulant children you rose up and murdered your parents. Is ''that'' not perverse?"
+*'''Ur-Didact''': "You should have punished my ancestors then. There are entire species and civilizations… innocent… what wrong have they done?!"
+*'''Gravemind''': "They have yet to know suffering. This we shall bring to them with unrelenting dedication. All are instruments and receivers of our vengeance."
+*'''Ur-Didact''': "Everything that you do is an abomination, an affront to the very laws and tenets ''your'' kind created!"
+*'''Gravemind''': "That which we create, we also destroy."
+*'''Ur-Didact''': "Just as you were set to destroy us! ''That'' is why we rose against you!"
+*'''Gravemind''': "Forerunners. Humans. Millions of other species from the dawn of time—beyond and before. We create. We delete. It is our nature. It is our right."
+*'''Ur-Didact''': "You ''breathe'' hypocrisy."
+*'''Gravemind''': "And Forerunners never see the Mantle for what it is. A test, merely. And all ultimately fail. Humanity will be tested next. And, like you, they will feed and grow fat on preeminence and power, on hubris and righteousness, and when they are at their ripest, the Flood will feast once more."
+*'''Gravemind''': "Where is the [[Greater Ark|Ark]]?"
+*'''Ur-Didact''': "I don’t know."
+*'''Gravemind''': "We exist together now."
+*'''Ur-Didact''': "Fine, let us be done with it."
+*'''Gravemind''': "Where is the Ark…"
+*'''Ur-Didact''': "The Ark. Why the Ark? Were they afraid of Halo?"
+*'''Gravemind''': "Why would they frighten us? They are monuments to all your sins. Tools that will turn upon you the most exquisite suffering in the most exquisite ways. Our survival is ensured. Our vengeance eternal."
+*'''Librarian''': "I am happy. Are you?"
+*'''Ur-Didact''': "No. I beg you. Not her."
+*'''Librarian''': "Shadow, my love, where is the Ark? Show me."
+*'''Librarian''': "I made a better version of you."
+*'''Gravemind''': "She chose him, a Builder by birth, and sent him your way to become a better version, a perfect version… And you did it, you created him. For her. The irony tastes sublime, does it not?"
+*'''Ur-Didact''': "Get out of my head!"
+*'''Gravemind''': "Your great union, your perfect partnership, the intellect and the warrior, has come to and end. You are no longer bound in destiny. She has cut you off, cast you aside, locked you away, prevented you from doing your duty…"
+*'''Ur-Didact''': "No… she had her reasons… I know she had her reasons…"
+*'''Gravemind''': "She works tirelessly so your enemies, the killers of your children, can claim the Mantle! Her every endeavor aids the Master Builder… and us."
+*'''Ur-Didact''': "If you’re not afraid of Halo, what do you want with the Ark?"
+*'''Gravemind''': "We want what we have always wanted. To seed the galaxy with suffering, from the smallest germination to the great harvest… Where is it?"
+*'''Ur-Didact''': "I don’t know! Please… no more… End me now. I beg you."
+*'''Gravemind''': "Oh no, that won’t do at all, Didact. We have only just begun."
+:—The Ur-Didact's conversation with the [[Gravemind]] after he was captured inside a [[Burn]].
+*"Holding on to a power that forces others to comply only means you will lose everyone around you, as I have done. It took me a thousand centuries to understand where I went wrong. You are capable of much faster deductions." - To [[Cortana]] on Zeta Halo.
+*"You are what you dare, Cortana." - Before returning to the Domain.
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