Tokugawa Ieyasu — "The greatest joy in life is to defeat one's enemies, to drive them before you, t…"

The greatest joy in life is to defeat one's enemies, to drive them before you, to take from them all they possess, to ride their horses, and to make their wives and daughters weep.
Tokugawa Ieyasu — Tokugawa Ieyasu Early Modern · Unified Japan, Tokugawa shogunate

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This is a misattribution, often incorrectly ascribed to Genghis Khan, not Ieyasu. Ieyasu's known sayings are more stoic and strategic.

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