Writing is only good for recording names. Swordsmanship defeats one man — that's not worth learning. I want to learn what defeats ten thousand.

My strength uproots mountains, my spirit overshadows the world.

書足以記名姓而已。剣一人敵、不足学。学万人敵。

是非に及ばず。

-- Oda Nobunaga

My strength uproots mountains, my spirit overshadows the world.

-- Xiang Yu

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

-- Belisarius

理由も分らずに押付けられたものを大人しく受取って、理由も分らずに生きて行くのが、我々生きもののさだめだ。

-- Atsushi Nakajima

This world, I think of it as my own, like the full moon lacking nothing at all.

-- Murasaki Shikibu