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More Quotes by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy.
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.
To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not.
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.
As everything in this world is but a sham, Death is the only sincerity.
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.
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.
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.
