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

書足以記名姓而已。剣一人敵、不足学。学万人敵。

My strength uproots mountains, my spirit overshadows the world.

There is nothing to be done about it.

-- The revolutionary warlord who dismantled feudal Japan's medieval order and launched the country toward unification

My strength uproots mountains, my spirit overshadows the world.

-- The 'Hegemon-King of Western Chu' whose raw military genius made him the most feared commander of ancient China's civil wars

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

-- The Byzantine Empire's greatest general

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

-- Murasaki Shikibu

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