To know sufficiency is itself happiness.

足ることを知るは即ち幸いである。

Mori Ōgai

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Mori Ōgai

Mori Ogai (1862-1922) was a Japanese novelist, translator, and army surgeon-general whose dual career in literature and military medicine made him a singular figure in Meiji-era Japan. Known for 'The Dancing Girl,' 'The Wild Geese,' and 'The Boat on the Takase River,' he brought German literary sophistication to Japanese prose.

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Mori Ōgai's Other Quotes

In this human world, the path is never singular. There are always multiple paths.

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

人の世には、道は一つということはない。道はいくつもある。

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Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

-- Zeno of Citium

不自由を常と思えば不足なし。

-- Tokugawa Ieyasu

不自由を常と思えば不足なし。

-- Tokugawa Ieyasu

Excess benevolence becomes weakness. Excess righteousness becomes rigidity.

-- Date Masamune

Know your station and know sufficiency.

-- Hōjō Sōun

弱虫は、幸福をさえおそれるものです。綿で怪我をするんです。

-- Osamu Dazai