Conn Iggulden Quotes
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To be close to your greatest desire could be an exquisite pain
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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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Life is too valuable to be wasted and it lasts too short
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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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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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A good general is ready for every option.
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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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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 eyes show the soul and they are the hardest to conceal.
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Perfection is in the little things
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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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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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There is a price for all things, my son, for all men. I have merely to find his.
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There shouldn't be walls among the allies
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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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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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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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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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We would all be a tyrant if we could.
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My word is Iron
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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
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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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Every man can break, after certain time period. It's only necessary to find the levers that move his soul