Conn Iggulden Quotes
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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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A man should always care about pleasing his wife.
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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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No worthy goal can be achieved easily. A virtue is born in suffering.
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...the fire doesn't know for who is burning.
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You have no idea what you have done.
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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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A wolf doesn't think about refined thing. He only cares that his pack is strong and that no other wolf dares to cross his way
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Just as the kids are afraid of the dark, so too are grown ups scared of power. It lures, but, also, consumes. It's a game that mustn't never be taken lightly.
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All information can be bought, my son, if you are willing to pay the price.
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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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Every man should be khan in his own home.
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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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When I think that I've mastered the game, it appears that every time I discover that I was playing blindly on some larger board.
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A man must always have the final choice in life and in death. Anything else can be taken from him, but never that.
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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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Nothing pleased the Mongols more than a good trick on the field of battle.
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Winter is our time. They shut up their cities for the cold months. They put their horses in stables and sit around great fires in enormous houses of stone. If you want a bearskin, do you attack in summer when it is strong and fast, or cut its throat as it sleeps?
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The eyes showed the soul and they were always hardest to mask.
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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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It was the tragedy of women to be lusted after and stolen in the night.
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He holds blood in his right hand," she whispered. "He will walk with death all his life.
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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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There was no justice in the world and evil men prospered. Kachiun struggled not to despair as he wrapped his deel around him, but there were times when he hated as ferociously as Temujin did. There should be justice. There should be revenge.