凡兵之道莫過乎一。一者能独往独来。

An army's strength lies not in numbers, but in discipline.

I share the same clothing and food as the lowest-ranking soldier.

Cultivate both the literary and martial arts.

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

He who plans more, wins. He who plans less, loses.

-- A Sengoku-era daimyo who transformed a single prov

Excess benevolence becomes weakness. Excess righteousness becomes rigidity.

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

One gun that hits with every shot can match a hundred guns that hit one in a hundred.

-- The admiral who destroyed the Russian Baltic Fleet at the Battle of Tsushima

Governance must be clean and transparent.

-- The ruthlessly effective architect of modern Japan who built the Meiji state's institutions while his more charismatic peers took the glory

親賢臣、遠小人、此先漢所以興隆也。親小人、遠賢臣、此後漢所以傾頽也。

-- The legendary chancellor and military strategist of the Shu Han kingdom during China's Three Kingdoms period