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。

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

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.

Know your station and know sufficiency.

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

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

-- A 5th-century BCE Chinese military theorist whose

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

-- The Mamluk sultan who stopped the Mongol advance at Ain Jalut

My victories have left sufficient offspring: Leuctra and Mantinea.

-- The Theban general who shattered Sparta's military supremacy at Leuctra

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

-- Mori Ogai

Mine has been a life of much shame.

-- Osamu Dazai