Even when a friend does something you do not like, he continues to be your friend.

The Greatest Happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love him shrouded and in tears. And to gather to your bosom his wives and daughters.

People conquered on different sides of the lake should be ruled on different sides of the lake.

If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.

Man's greatest joy is to slay his enemy, plunder his riches, ride his steeds, see the tears of his loved ones and embrace his women

With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you

Heaven has appointed me to rule all the nations, for hitherto there has been no order upon the steppes.