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“Did not Socrates, all the while he unflinchingly refused to concede one iota of loyalty to his daemon, obey with equal fidelity and equanimity the command of his earthly master, the State? His conscience he followed, alive; his country he served, dying. Alack the day when a state grows so powerful as to demand of its citizens the dictates of their consciences!”
― Inazo Nitobe, Bushido: The Soul of Japan

“When men's fowls and dogs are lost, they know to seek for them again, but they lose their mind and do not know to seek for it.”
― Inazo Nitobe, Bushido, the Soul of Japan

“Singlemindedness is all-powerful.”
― 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