Conn Iggulden Quotes
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Be careful in your life, Tolui. I want you fit and strong for when I come for you.
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Hawks and eagles don't fly together. They are of totally different kind.
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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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Conquering enemy cities was far less complicated than the women in his life, or the children they bore for him.
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The decision took a moment, but it lasted a lifetime
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No man could be a khan to his mother.
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Nothing is stronger than the bond between people who risk their lives fighting shoulder to shoulder
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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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You do not placate a tiger by feeding it your own flesh.
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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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We would all be a tyrant if we could.
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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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Sometimes, power could change hands as quickly as a knife thrust.
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You can't hunt a man if he's searching for you
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Your brother beat him almost to death, Temujin. He held him and kicked him until he cried like a child. He is afraid of you, so he hates you. It would be wrong to hurt him again. It would be like beating a dog after it has loosed it's bladder. The spirit is already broken in him.
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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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You won't calm the tiger if you feed him with your own flesh
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Men respect the silent; they despise the garrulous.
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A good general is ready for every option.
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Predators did not need mercy.
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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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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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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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The suffering of my enemies will be a feast to the spirits. When I am old, I will remember the tears they have shed and it will ease my bones.