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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.
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.
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.
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.
To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not.
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.
A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death.
As everything in this world is but a sham, Death is the only sincerity.
