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“If one has no earnest daily intention, does not consider what it is to be a warrior even in his dreams, and lives through the day idly, he can be said to be worthy of punishment.”
― Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
― Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
“Victory and defeat are matters of the temporary force of circumstances. The way of avoiding shame is different. It is simply in death.”
― Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
― Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
“Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.”
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“If you are unaware that the world is teeming with ineptitude from the beginning, you will develop a bitter countenance, and in turn others will eschew you.”
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“He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
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