Conn Iggulden Quotes
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They saw Cade’s army swelling into the open like a burst blister.
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The Buddha said, ‘Gripped by fear, men go to the sacred mountains and sacred groves, sacred trees and shrines.’ I am not afraid of death, my lady. I need no god to comfort me in my fear.
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You have a mighty army, but the greatest force is the one that you don't have to use.
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Your people will be torn from the land for this, Tartar. Your gers will burn and your herds will be scattered.
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There is no escape from me, not even in death.
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Now that we sharpened our teeth, let's use them.
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Every man has it's price, but it's almost never the gold
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Temujin snorted. "Never lose faith in me, little brother. My word is iron and I will always come home.
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Cities make you afraid.
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The right words are always there, if a man's sharp enough to see them.
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The wolf brothers can tear each others into pieces, no matter the blood kinship
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In the Senate they have as many power as we decide to grant them, do you understand it? If we don't allow them anything, then they have nothing. That which they call ''power'' is made of shadows
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...the fire doesn't know for who is burning.
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We are from a line of khans, brother. We rule wherever we are placed.
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For us, luck is a trifle over which, in human life, it passes just like that. We try and suffer because, thanks to that, we know that we are alive.
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When I am gone, I do not want men to say Look at his piles of wealth, his cities, his palaces and fine clothes.” Genghis paused for a moment. “Instead I want them to say Make sure he is truly dead. He is a vicious old man and he conquered half the world.
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You have no idea what you have done.
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It is done. We are a nation and we will ride. Tonight, let no man think of his tribe and mourn. We are a greater family and all lands are ours to take.
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Life is never a simple problem made of questions and one answer. There are always plenty answers.
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To be strong - that's the first thing the man must learn. If you don't have strength, others can take you everything you have or make
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No man can think about everything; we can only be ready for everything
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If a man has gold, he lives with the terror that someone will take it away from him, so he builds walls around it. Then everyone knows where the gold is, so they come and take it. That’s the way it always goes, brother. Fools and gold, together.
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No worthy goal should come easily, he told himself. Suffering created value.
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You will revenge my father's death and we will be one tribe across the face of the plains, one people. As it should always have been. Let the Tartars fear us then. Let the Chin fear us.