Conn Iggulden Quotes
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If my brother was made to kneel... you will never walk again.
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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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My word is Iron
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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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You cannot deceive the mirror
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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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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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Men respect the silent; they despise the garrulous.
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The wisdom of age is bitter when those you have failed have gone.
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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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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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The point of war is to win, Kachiun. It does not matter how we do it, or how long it takes.
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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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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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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 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 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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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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Perfection is in the little things
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Predators did not need mercy.
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There shouldn't be walls among the allies
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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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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.