Conn Iggulden Quotes
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The wisdom of age is bitter when those you have failed have gone.
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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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It does not matter what others think of how I lived my life. It does not matter if we go down in Temuge’s histories as tyrants or even cowards. All that matters is what we do now. We are our only judges, Kachiun. Remember that. Those who come after will have other trials, other battles to worry about.
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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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Predators did not need mercy.
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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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The eyes show the soul and they are the hardest to conceal.
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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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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 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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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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I am the land, the bones of the hills," he said fiercely, "I am the winter. When I am dead, I will come for you all in the coldest nights.
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A past is comforting because it' certain.
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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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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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Perfection is in the little things
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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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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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We would all be a tyrant if we could.
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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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There shouldn't be walls among the allies
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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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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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The decision took a moment, but it lasted a lifetime