人の世には、道は一つということはない。道はいくつもある。

In this human world, the path is never singular. There are always multiple paths.

I wish to die as Mori Rintaro, a man of Iwami.

Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

-- Zeno of Citium

Know your station and know sufficiency.

-- The man who invented the Sengoku period's model of conquest

Excess benevolence becomes weakness. Excess righteousness becomes rigidity.

-- The 'One-Eyed Dragon' of northern Japan who carved

不自由を常と思えば不足なし。

-- The founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

-- Alexandre Dumas

Habit is given to us from above: it is a substitute for happiness.

-- Alexander Pushkin