Conn Iggulden Quotes
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No worthy goal can be achieved easily. A virtue is born in suffering.
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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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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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It is the quality of the burden you must consider, Brutus, not the weight.
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You have to consider the quality of the cargo and not the weight
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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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The eyes showed the soul and they were always hardest to mask.
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A past is comforting because it' certain.
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As he prepared to ride on, he chuckled at the thought of the wolf entering the sheepfold. He would not ride with fire and destruction. The shepherd did not frighten his own pretty lambs.
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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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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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Conquering enemy cities was far less complicated than the women in his life, or the children they bore for him.
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We would all be a tyrant if we could.
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This book could not have been written without the people of Mongolia, who allowed me to live among them for a time and who taught me their history over salted tea and vodka while the winter eased into spring.
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To defeat the enemy, we must know him first
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You do not placate a tiger by feeding it your own flesh.
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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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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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There shouldn't be walls among the allies
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Hawks and eagles don't fly together. They are of totally different kind.
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Every man, who has fought in a battle, is now ash, every sword has been eaten by rust, but the lessons still must be learned
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Men respect the silent; they despise the garrulous.
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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.