What is REALLY best in life?

[ColonelHardisson]

I suspect that the attribution of this quote to Ghengis Khan is apocryphal. I couldn't find any info one way or the other with a quick scan of the internet, other than a lot of random people saying "Ghengis Khan said it first" without any correlating evidence.

A quick Google search turned this up, from this site: http://www.cyberussr.com/hcunn/q-havoc.html

"Man's highest joy is in victory: to conquer one's enemies, to pursue them, to deprive them of their possessions, to make their beloved weep, to ride on their horses, and to embrace their daughters and their wives."

cited in Vernadsky, The Mongols and Russia, Yale University Press, 1970, p. 43.

Yeah, it's not exactly what was written in the Conan script, but anyone who's read various versions of the Bible or the Rubaiyat or any number of other classical writings knows that this is pretty durned close to be a coincidence.

 

[genshou]

Other:

To kill them and take their stuff, of course.