Conn Iggulden Quotes
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You have to consider the quality of the cargo and not the weight
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The eyes showed the soul and they were always hardest to mask.
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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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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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We will not stop until the sea bounds us in every direction. I am Genghis who say this and my word is iron.
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You do not placate a tiger by feeding it your own flesh.
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It is the quality of the burden you must consider, Brutus, 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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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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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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Conquering enemy cities was far less complicated than the women in his life, or the children they bore for him.
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No worthy goal can be achieved easily. A virtue is born in suffering.
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We would all be a tyrant if we could.
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A man should always care about pleasing his wife.
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A past is comforting because it' certain.
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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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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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The eyes show the soul and they are the hardest to conceal.
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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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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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The eagles ruled the air as the tribes ruled the land.
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Nothing is stronger than the bond between people who risk their lives fighting shoulder to shoulder
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There shouldn't be walls among the allies
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Men respect the silent; they despise the garrulous.