• "Nay," responded the Khan, "to crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet — to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best."
• As quoted in Genghis Khan: The Emperor of All Men (1927) by Harold Lamb, Doubleday, p. 107.
• As quoted in Jami' al-tawarikh, Vol. 1, the second part (史集 第一卷 第二分册) (1983) by Rashīd al-Dīn Tabīb, translated by Yu, Dajun & Zhou, Jianqi, p. 362
[What, in all the world, could bring the greatest happiness?]
• Variant translation: The real greatest pleasure of men is to repress rebels and defeat enemies, to exterminate them and grab everything they have; to see their married women crying, to ride on their steeds with smooth backs, to treat their beautiful queens and concubines as pajamas and pillows, to stare and kiss their rose-colored faces and to suck their sweet lips of nipple-colored.
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• Variant translation: The real greatest pleasure of men is to repress rebels and defeat enemies, to exterminate them and grab everything they have; to see their married women crying, to ride on their steeds with smooth backs, to treat their beautiful queens and concubines as pajamas and pillows, to stare and kiss their rose-colored faces and to suck their sweet lips of nipple-colored." in the context of ""The open steppe, a clear day, and a swift horse under you," responded the officer after a little thought, "and a falcon on your wrist to start up hares."
• "Nay," responded the Khan, "to crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet — to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best."
• As quoted in Genghis Khan: The Emperor of All Men (1927) by Harold Lamb, Doubleday, p. 107.
• As quoted in Jami' al-tawarikh, Vol. 1, the second part (史集 第一卷 第二分册) (1983) by Rashīd al-Dīn Tabīb, translated by Yu, Dajun & Zhou, Jianqi, p. 362 " to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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