The benefit morality gives us is economy of time and effort. The damage it does is the complete paralysis of conscience.

Life is not worth a single line of Baudelaire.

I suffer from a certain vague unease.

If the cuckoo will not sing, I shall make it want to sing.

-- Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden. Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.

-- Tokugawa Ieyasu

Fifty years of human life -- compared to the realm beneath heaven, it is but a dream, an illusion.

-- Oda Nobunaga

I would rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

-- Cao Cao

For human beings, fate arrives suddenly, without any warning.

-- Yasushi Inoue

The history of humanity is also a history of excavating hidden facts.

-- Seichō Matsumoto