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  • #1
    Horatius
    “Happy the man, and happy he alone,
    he who can call today his own:
    he who, secure within, can say,
    Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

    Be fair or foul, or rain or shine
    the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
    Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power,
    but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.”
    Horace

  • #2
    Horatius
    “Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith”
    Horace

  • #3
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “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.”
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

  • #4
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “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.”
    Tsunetomo Yamamoto, The Hagakure: A code to the way of samurai

  • #5
    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.”
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

  • #6
    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.”
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

  • #7
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the extent of living single thought by single thought.”
    Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

  • #8
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “It is said that what is called "the spirit of an age" is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is due to the world's coming to an end. For this reason, although one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation.”
    Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

  • #9
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “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.”
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
    tags: zen

  • #10
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “This is the substance of the Way of the Samurai: if by setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he gains freedom in the Way.
    his whole life will be without blame, and he will succeed in his calling.”
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  • #11
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own heart asks.”
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

  • #12
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning.”
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

  • #13
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “When one is writing a letter, he should think that the recipient will make it into a hanging scroll.”
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

  • #14
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “In the Kamigata area, they have a sort of tiered lunchbox they use for a single day when flower viewing. Upon returning, they throw them away, trampling them underfoot. The end is important in all things.”
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

  • #15
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “If a warrior is not unattached to life and death, he will be of no use whatsoever. The saying that “All abilities come from one mind” sounds as though it has to do with sentient matters, but it is in fact a matter of being unattached to life and death. With such non-attachment one can accomplish any feat.”
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

  • #16
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “Singlemindedness is all-powerful.”
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  • #17
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters.”
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

  • #18
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “Respect, Honesty, Courage, Rectitude, Loyalty, Honour, Benevolence”
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

  • #19
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “Matters of great concern should be treated lightly.” Master Ittei commented, “Matters of small concern should be treated seriously.”
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

  • #20
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “If by setting one’s heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he gains freedom in the Way.”
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

  • #21
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “Tether even a roasted chicken.”
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

  • #22
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “It is spiritless to think that you cannot attain to that which you have seen and heard the masters attain. The masters are men. You are also a man. If you think that you will be inferior in doing something, you will be on that road very soon.”
    Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

  • #23
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #24
    Marcus Aurelius
    “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #25
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #26
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
    Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

  • #27
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #28
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #29
    Marcus Aurelius
    “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #30
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations



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