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More Quotes by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not.
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.
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.
If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy.
As everything in this world is but a sham, Death is the only sincerity.
If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy.
A warrior is worthless unless he rises above others and stands strong in the midst of a storm.
There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own heart asks.
There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. There will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else.