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Things Quotes by Miyamoto Musashi
- The spirit of defeating a man is the same for ten million men. The strategist makes small things into big things, like building a great…
- To cut and slash are two different things. Cutting, whatever form of cutting it is, is decisive, with a resolute spirit. Slashing is nothing more…
- All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.
- There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in…
- People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true…
- Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so tall that the…
- By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist.
- Speed is not part of the true Way of strategy. Speed implies that things seem fast or slow, according to whether or not they are…
- If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy.
- from one thing, know ten thousand things
- It is difficult to realize the true Way just through sword-fencing. Know the smallest things and the biggest things, the shallowest things and the deepest…
- The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them…
- Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced…
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- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
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- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
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- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle