Conn Iggulden Quotes
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After tonight, we will be with the spirits and see the hills of home,” he called to them. “The khan will hear. He will sweep this land clean.
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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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They saw Cade’s army swelling into the open like a burst blister.
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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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A knowledge isn't dangerous. Only the man is dangerous.
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Nothing pleased the Mongols more than a good trick on the field of battle.
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There is no escape from me, not even in death.
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I will need good friends around me if I am to survive my first year of politics. My father described it as walking barefoot in a nest of vipers.
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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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We are from a line of khans, brother. We rule wherever we are placed.
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Some people will always be animals, while the others want to be... people.
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A man needs to feel a little fear, Tolui, if only to have the pride of conquering it.
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Every man has it's price, but it's almost never the gold
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The right words are always there, if a man's sharp enough to see them.
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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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The cold was an enemy, yet it kept the tribes strong. The old did not suffer for long in such bitter winters. The weakling children perished quickly. His son would not be one of those.
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No man can think about everything; we can only be ready for everything
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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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All information can be bought, my son, if you are willing to pay the price.
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I think myself as a searcher for truths, with new truth for each place I visit.
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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.
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A man must always have the possibility of a final choice between life and death. You can take him all the rest, but that never.
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It was the tragedy of women to be lusted after and stolen in the night.