Hybril

“The truth of the matter was, that whether a person did good or committed evil was rarely ever due to their inherent nature.

Each person was like a plot of farmland; some were lucky, their fields sprinkled with seeds of grains, bearing an abundant harvest come autumn, paddies wafting with the soft fragrance of rice and fields of wheat dancing in the wind like waves, and everything would be good and praise-worthy.

But some were not so lucky. Their fields were planted with the seeds of poppy flowers, and the spring breeze brought only the sin of intoxicated dissipation and euphoric decadence, filling the skies and covering the lands with that vile, bloody red and gold. The people abhorred it, cursed it, feared it, even as they indulged in its blissful stupor, rotted away in its filthy stench.”
― 肉包不吃肉, 二哈和他的白猫师尊

“One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.”
― May Sarton

“Life is filled with doing terrible things and those who want to survive definitely have to do the worst of them.”
― Livio Gambarini, Gli eserciti dei santi

“It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.”
― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era