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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.
Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the death of one’s master. And every day without fail one should consider himself as dead
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.
Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else.
To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not.
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.
As everything in this world is but a sham, Death is the only sincerity.
In China there was once a man who liked pictures of dragons, and his clothing and furnishings were all designed accordingly. His deep affection for dragons was brought to the attention of the dragon god, and onde day a real dragon appeared before his window. It is said that he died of fright. He was probably a man who always spoke big words but acted differently when facing the real thing.
