Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden. Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.
人の一生は重荷を負うて遠き道を行くがごとし。急ぐべからず。

Military Strategists
Tokugawa Ieyasu
The founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate, who achieved through patience what others sought through force (1543-1616). After decades of subordination, strategic waiting, and calculated alliance-building, Ieyasu won the decisive Battle of Sekigahara and established a dynasty that ruled Japan in peace for 260 years.
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