Conn Iggulden Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The decision took a moment, but it lasted a lifetime
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You do not placate a tiger by feeding it your own flesh.
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The eyes showed the soul and they were always hardest to mask.
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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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It is the quality of the burden you must consider, Brutus, not the weight.
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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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People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
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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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Conquering enemy cities was far less complicated than the women in his life, or the children they bore for him.
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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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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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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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Sometimes, power could change hands as quickly as a knife thrust.
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We are not here to earn riches with a bow. The wolf does not think of fine things, only that his pack is strong and no other wolf dares to cross his path. That is enough.
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My word is iron," Kublai said to the guards, as Meng Guang was led away. "Your people will come to know this, in time.
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A little guilt has made more than a few men live better than they would have done—trying to even the scales before they cross the river.
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You have to consider the quality of the cargo and not the weight
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Men respect the silent; they despise the garrulous.
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And the next time a pretty girl looks twice at you, start running. They're more trouble than they're worth.
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There shouldn't be walls among the allies