Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

The goal of life is living in agreement with Nature.

Man conquers the world by conquering himself.

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

Excess benevolence becomes weakness. Excess righteousness becomes rigidity.

-- Date Masamune

I came as dew, I vanish as dew — all that I was, all I achieved at Naniwa, is a dream within a dream.

-- Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Do not buy fertile fields for your children and grandchildren.

-- Saigō Takamori

If you want to destroy your enemy, forgive him.

-- Saladin

An action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure.

-- Genghis Khan

He who cannot govern himself cannot govern others.

-- Genghis Khan