Conn Iggulden Quotes
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You won't calm the tiger if you feed him with your own flesh
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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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There is a price for all things, my son, for all men. I have merely to find his.
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We would all be a tyrant if we could.
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Now there's nothing wrong with Booker prize novels - we all have wobbling tables or draughts coming in under the door
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We see death in the loss of sweet daughters and wives and fathers and old friends
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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.
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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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You can't just wound the bear and run. He'll come after you.
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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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There was no destiny in life, nothing beyond what a man could take and hold for himself.
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You cannot deceive the mirror
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I have not given thought to what comes after the battles. Perhaps I will rule. Is that not the right of a conqueror?
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The greatest joy a man can know is to conquer his enemies and drive them before him. To ride their horses and take away their possessions, to see the faces of those who were dear to them bedewed with tears, and to clasp their wives and daughters in his arms.
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Every man should be khan in his own home.
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If you are asking if my family will take what they want, of course they will. The strong rule, Chen Yi. Those who are not strong dream of it.
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Most cannot lead—the idea terrifies them. Yet for those like you and me, there is no greater joy than knowing there is no help coming. The decision is ours alone.
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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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Why do you hurt me? What more do you want?” she asked, tears shining in her eyes. “Power over you, little one,” he said, smiling. “What does any man want but that? It is something in the blood of every one of us. We would all be a tyrant if we could.
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A man should always care about pleasing his wife.
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No worthy goal can be achieved easily. A virtue is born in suffering.
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No man could be a khan to his mother.
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Xuan smiled at the thought of men sleeping peacefully next to those they would try to kill in daylight. Only humanity could have conceived such a strange and artificial way to die. Wolves might tear the flesh of deer, but they never slept and dreamed near their quarry.
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As he prepared to ride on, he chuckled at the thought of the wolf entering the sheepfold. He would not ride with fire and destruction. The shepherd did not frighten his own pretty lambs.