He who knows only victory and does not know defeat will suffer for it.
勝つことばかり知りて、負くることを知らざれば、害その身に至る。
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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