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There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you will still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything.
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More Quotes by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams.
A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death.
A warrior is worthless unless he rises above others and stands strong in the midst of a storm.
It is a principle of the art of war that one should simply lay down his life and strike. If one's opponent also does the same, it is a even match. Defeating one's opponent is then a matter of faith and destiny.
Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else.
Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.
It is a wretched thing that the young men of today are so contriving and so proud of their material posessions. Men with contriving hearts are lacking in duty. Lacking in duty, they will have no self-respect.
I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death.
If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy.
There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own heart asks.
