“Listen, if you want peace you must learn to drink cha from an empty cup.”
― Shōgun
― Shōgun
“Patience means restraining yourself. There are seven emotions, neh? Joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate. If a man doesn’t give way to these, he’s patient.”
― Shōgun
― Shōgun
“Kogo, the goshawk, fluttered on his wrist and settled herself, watching him. Toranaga smiled at her. I did not choose to be what I am. It is my karma.”
― Shogun
― Shogun
“Yes. My ship'll be like her, he promised himself. She'll be trim and miniature and perfect like a Yoshitomo blade, and that's the best in the world, and just as dangerous. Next year she'll take a prize twenty times her own weight, like Mariko did at Osaka, ans she'll rip the enemy out of Asia.”
― Shōgun
― Shōgun
“...by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.”
― Shōgun
― Shōgun
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