Ah, the irony

[elfs]

This morning, I stumbled across a quote by Genghis Kahn that needed writing down somewhere in my paper journal:

The greatest joy is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love him shrouded in tears. And to clasp to your bosom his wives and children.

I then put my bookmark into the page, the bookmark with the symbol 慶 on it. The symbol is commonly interpreted as "Joy."

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[srmalloy.livejournal.com]

On a search I did, I got a slightly different version (not entirely translation differences; it has an extra phrase):

"A man's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that have been theirs, to hear the weeping of those who cherished them, to take their horses between his knees and to press in his arms the most desirable of their women."