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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Predators did not need mercy.
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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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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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Keep him alive," he whispered to the sky father. "Keep him strong and healthy. Keep him alive, for me to kill.
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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 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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There was no destiny in life, nothing beyond what a man could take and hold for himself.
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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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You cannot deceive the mirror
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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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If word got out that anyone was moving soldiers, they could expect a tuman to turn up on the horizon. Genghis was not a man to ignore a naked challenge to his authority. The Mongol army moved and millions would die.
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A man should always care about pleasing his wife.
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Get up,” she said. “Get up, my lord. If you do not have long, there is still much to do. You must not waste another day, another morning! Take hold of your life with both hands and crush it to you, my lord. You will not have another in this world.
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We are all fools with our sons. We wipe them and suckle them and all we expect is for them to be grateful to the end of their days.
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Sometimes it's better to just let the wave overcome you and then pick up the shards when it passes
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All men die,” Jelme went on, ignoring the outburst. “It could be tonight, next year, or in forty years, when you are toothless and weak. All you can do is choose how you stand when it comes.
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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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We will not stop until the sea bounds us in every direction. I am Genghis who say this and my word is iron.
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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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Every man should be khan in his own home.
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The decision took a moment, but it lasted a lifetime
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Every man can break, after certain time period. It's only necessary to find the levers that move his soul
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Sometimes, power could change hands as quickly as a knife thrust.