Conn Iggulden Quotes
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You can't just wound the bear and run. He'll come after you.
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No worthy goal should come easily, he told himself. Suffering created value.
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It is the quality of the burden you must consider, Brutus, not the weight.
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Conquering enemy cities was far less complicated than the women in his life, or the children they bore for him.
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You cannot deceive the mirror
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You obey orders, because if you do not, you cannot expect the same from your men. You are part of the wolf, not the whole wolf. I would have thought you had learned that when you were a boy, but it is not the case. A wolf cannot have more than one head, General, or it tears itself apart.
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What is the purpose of life if not to conquer? To steal women and land? I would rather be here and see this than live out my life in peace.
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You won't calm the tiger if you feed him with your own flesh
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He would never understand women, he thought. They were life’s great mystery.
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You do not placate a tiger by feeding it your own flesh.
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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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Predators did not need mercy.
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This book could not have been written without the people of Mongolia, who allowed me to live among them for a time and who taught me their history over salted tea and vodka while the winter eased into spring.
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A past is comforting because it' certain.
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The wisdom of age is bitter when those you have failed have gone.
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Men respect the silent; they despise the garrulous.
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You have to consider the quality of the cargo and not the weight
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When you’re older, you will realise the only thing that matters, the only thing, is that you had courage and honour. Lose those things and you won’t die any quicker, but you’ll be less than the dirt on our boots. You’ll still be dust, but you’ll have wasted your short time in the light.
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It's all you can say, when the end comes: 'I did not waste my time.' I think that matters. I think it may be all that matters.
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We are soldiers, Highness. We understand tomorrow could be the last day. Or the day after. A soldier has so little control over the time or manner of his ending. He can always choose how he faces it.
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There was no destiny in life, nothing beyond what a man could take and hold for himself.
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The eagles ruled the air as the tribes ruled the land.
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If my brother was made to kneel... you will never walk again.