Conn Iggulden Quotes
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You obey orders, because if you do not, you cannot expect the same from your men. You are part of the wolf, not the whole wolf. I would have thought you had learned that when you were a boy, but it is not the case. A wolf cannot have more than one head, General, or it tears itself apart.
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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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If they love you, they will do what you wish,but only WHEN they want to. If they fear you, they will do what you wish EXACTLY when you wish. So, is it better to love or fear you?
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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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Whoever controls the heart of the land, controls the world
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When you’re older, you will realise the only thing that matters, the only thing, is that you had courage and honour. Lose those things and you won’t die any quicker, but you’ll be less than the dirt on our boots. You’ll still be dust, but you’ll have wasted your short time in the light.
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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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God giveth and God taketh away. Just be sure you’re present when he giveth – and somewhere else when he taketh it all back.
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Rome wasn't built on caution and compromise.
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...luxury is fleeting, but enjoy in it while lasts.
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A good decisions are never brought in a state of rage.
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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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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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No worthy goal can be achieved easily. A virtue is born in suffering.
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Only memories stay the same, young lad. Everything else changes
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A past is comforting because it' certain.
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What good is in dexterity of playing with logic when your weak soul retreats from difficulties?
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A man should always care about pleasing his wife.
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My word is Iron
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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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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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To defeat the enemy, we must know him first
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There shouldn't be walls among the allies
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There is a price for all things, my son, for all men. I have merely to find his.