A cowardly pride and an arrogant sense of shame.

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.

Heaven destroys me — it is not a failure of warfare.

-- Xiang Yu

My strength uproots mountains, my spirit overshadows the world.

-- Xiang Yu

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

-- Belisarius

There is no use deliberating now.

-- Oda Nobunaga

In this uncertain world, we cannot know what tomorrow brings.

-- Sanada Yukimura

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

-- William Shakespeare