Christian Cameron Quotes

#1. Dandamis then looked at Alexander with pity. 'You have nothing I want,' he said. 'Once, you might have been a passable philosopher, but now you value no opinion save your own. You wander because you cannot bear to be still-you conquer because you cannot bear to rule.

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#2. triremes with a half deck for carrying full sail and more sailors

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#3. Sometimes, the gods are kind. And hubris is the worst of sins.

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#4. Boys torment each other when there's nothing else to do and no Frenchmen to fight.

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#5. And for the rest, I remember little enough. Except that we were happy, and healthy, and in love.
It didn't last. Nothing worth having ever does. But it was the happiest time of my young life.

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#6. A dead war horse is the single most expensive corpse you'll ever see.

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#7. How the gods must have laughed

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#8. But on the day after a defeat, the men who matter are the leaders. Anyone can lead men after a victory. Only the best can lead after a defeat.

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#9. ...there is no such thing as a ferocious charge uphill.

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#10. had made us practise, in fact. Nearchos followed

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#11. There's good things about wearing armour. One is that if your horse bounces you through deep brush, all that happens is that you get pine-needles in your visor.

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#12. Slave or free, a man is nothing but a pile of bones and flesh with blood in the middle.

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#13. I do not remember much of that illness, except that I woke to find my head in Emile's lap. She looked into my eyes.
'You are a fool,' she said. It was the nicest thing she'd said to me in two years.

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