Learning to write is merely enough to record one's name. The sword defeats but a single foe and is not worth mastering. I shall study the art of defeating ten thousand.

My strength uproots mountains, my spirit overshadows the world.

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

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

-- Murasaki Shikibu

My strength uproots mountains, my spirit overshadows the world.

-- Xiang Yu

There is no use deliberating now.

-- Oda Nobunaga

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

-- Belisarius

To meekly accept what is thrust upon us without reason, and to go on living without reason -- that is the fate of all living beings.

-- Atsushi Nakajima