Conn Iggulden Quotes
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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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No worthy goal should come easily, he told himself. Suffering created value.
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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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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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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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It is the quality of the burden you must consider, Brutus, not the weight.
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He would never understand women, he thought. They were life’s great mystery.
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The eyes showed the soul and they were always hardest to mask.
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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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A man needs to feel a little fear, Tolui, if only to have the pride of conquering it.
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If they love you, they will do what you wish,but only WHEN they want to. If they fear you, they will do what you wish EXACTLY when you wish. So, is it better to love or fear you?
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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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He holds blood in his right hand," she whispered. "He will walk with death all his life.
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You have to consider the quality of the cargo and not the weight
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Life is too valuable to be wasted and it lasts too short
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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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There was no destiny in life, nothing beyond what a man could take and hold for himself.
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You do not placate a tiger by feeding it your own flesh.
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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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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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The eyes show the soul and they are the hardest to conceal.
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To be close to your greatest desire could be an exquisite pain
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A past is comforting because it' certain.