Conn Iggulden Quotes
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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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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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The decision took a moment, but it lasted a lifetime
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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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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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And the next time a pretty girl looks twice at you, start running. They're more trouble than they're worth.
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No man could be a khan to his mother.
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All men die,” Jelme went on, ignoring the outburst. “It could be tonight, next year, or in forty years, when you are toothless and weak. All you can do is choose how you stand when it comes.
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...luxury is fleeting, but enjoy in it while lasts.
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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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Be careful in your life, Tolui. I want you fit and strong for when I come for you.
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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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Hawks and eagles don't fly together. They are of totally different kind.
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Sometimes, power could change hands as quickly as a knife thrust.
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A man could waste his life worrying, that was all too clear. Sometimes you simply had to choose and shrug, however it came out, knowing that you could not have done more with the bones you were given.
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Our life is just a bird, which flies into illuminated window, and then flies away, again, into the darkness
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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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You're not the to be offered fancy things out of loyalty. A good father doesn't spoil a child with gifts.
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Nothing is stronger than the bond between people who risk their lives fighting shoulder to shoulder
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A good decisions are never brought in a state of rage.
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Rome wasn't built on caution and compromise.
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The nation of my father is too strong for a man who cannot command even his own body.
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Know the enemy and you will know how to kill him.
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Only memories stay the same, young lad. Everything else changes