Patience is the foundation of lasting peace. Consider anger your enemy.
堪忍は無事長久の基、怒りは敵と思え。

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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