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。

The cowardly fear of exposing one's lack of talent, and the terror that even after grinding effort, one's innate insufficiency might become all the more apparent.

Life is too long to do nothing, yet too short to accomplish something.

Know your station and know sufficiency.

-- Hōjō Sōun

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

-- Sun Tzu

He who is ashamed of slave origins is no true warrior.

-- Baibars

My victories have left sufficient offspring: Leuctra and Mantinea.

-- Epaminondas

Mine has been a life of much shame.

-- Osamu Dazai

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

-- Mori Ōgai