Top 120 Conn Iggulden Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “He chuckled to himself as he walked. A warm woman and a battle to come. To be alive on such a night was a wondrous thing.”

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102. “Know the enemy and you will know how to kill him.”

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103. “After tonight, we will be with the spirits and see the hills of home,” he called to them. “The khan will hear. He will sweep this land clean.”

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104. “Predators did not need mercy.”

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105. “A man must always have the final choice in life and in death. Anything else can be taken from him, but never that.”

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106. “Why do you have sons, if not to grow up and test their boldness? Boldness cannot be laid like bones in the sack. It must be driven and again shown on the light, each time stronger than the last. You’re mistaken if you think you can keep it, until you need it. It’s like everything else, that gives you strength. If you neglect it, your sack will be empty, when you need it the most.”

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107. “He wanted his enemies proud and strong, so that he could cast them further down in his vengeance.”

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108. “In the Senate they have as many power as we decide to grant them, do you understand it? If we don’t allow them anything, then they have nothing. That which they call ″power″ is made of shadows.”

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109. “Mother’s love is unusual and complicated, unresolved to reason.”

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110. “We see death in the loss of sweet daughters and wives and fathers and old friends.”

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111. “He is no fool, Kublai. He understands far better than you realize. The khan’s vast armies cannot return to being herdsmen, not anymore. He is riding the tiger now, my son. He dare not climb down.”

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112. “We are from a line of khans, brother. We rule wherever we are placed.”

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113. “There are many who say ‘I believe this,’ but would they hold true to those beliefs if their children were threatened? No. But Genghis would. If you told him you would kill his children, he would tell you to go ahead, but realize that the cost would be infinite, that he would tear down cities and nations and the price would never be paid. He did not lie and his enemies knew it. His word was iron.”

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114. “The decision took a moment, but it lasted a lifetime.”

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115. “When we meet again, Spartan,’ he murmured aloud, in prayer, ’when you ask me what we did after your death, I will not be ashamed. I promise you that. I will bring them back.”

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116. “You have a mighty army, but the greatest force is the one that you don’t have to use.”

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117. “It behooves us ill to look back and point fingers, saying, ‘Ah, that should not have happened. That should not have been allowed.’ Such a perspective is granted only to men staring backward, Sir William. For those of us with the will to go forward, it is as if we walk blindfolded into a dark room. Not every false step or stumble can be judged after the moment has passed, nor should it be.”

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118. “No one escapes his fate, whether brave or coward, not from the moment he is born.’ – Homer, The Iliad.”

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119. “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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120. “The great moments of your life are still ahead. Yet if you only take a step when you are certain you are right, you will never move at all.”

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121. “A man needs to feel a little fear, Tolui, if only to have the pride of conquering it.”

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122. “Sung Win smiled to himself, enjoying the tension across his shoulders and the way his pulse beat in his veins. All life involved risk.”

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123. “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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124. “While the moon rose and fell, lonely tracks through the mountains echoed to the slap of running feet as those lads earned their pay, racing to be first to the gates of Athens.”

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125. “Conquering enemy cities was far less complicated than the women in his life, or the children they bore for him.”

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126. “A strong man could bend the sky to suit him, but only for himself, Temujin knew.”

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127. “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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128. “How did you make Khasar accept you to succeed me?” Genghis murmured to his back. “I told him he could be khan,” Kachiun replied. “I think it terrified him.”

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129. “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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130. “You can’t hunt a man if he’s searching for you.”

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131. “Weak people always looked for those to blame.”

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132. “Iron will not touch you, lord. Stone will not break you. You are the Wolf and the sky father watches.”

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133. “Words are not heavy. It does not take more than one of you to carry my reply.”

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