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More Quotes by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Light matters should be dealt with seriously. Serious matters should be dealt with lightly.
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.
As everything in this world is but a sham, Death is the only sincerity.
To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not.
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.
There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own heart asks.
A warrior is worthless unless he rises above others and stands strong in the midst of a storm.
Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else.
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.
