If you're a sailor, best not know how to swim. Swimming only prolongs the inevitable—if the sea wants you and your time has come.
Why do you weep, child? We of the Floating World live only for the moment, giving all our time to the pleasures of cherry blossoms and snow and maple leaves, the calling of a cricket, the beauty of th...
Gods are like people. They believe anything if you tell them right way.
Perhaps that is why we love life so much, Anjin-san. You see, we have to. Death is part of our air and see and earth.
Listen, if you want peace you must learn to drink cha from an empty cup.
Let's compete freely. Goddam tariffs! Free trade and free seas—that's what's right!
Oare ce-s nouriiDaca nu o justificare a cerului?Oare ce-i viataDaca nu o amanare a mortii?
Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remembered how his own will had been stretched that night of his near-seppuku, when he had had to get up...
Only a real man has the right to stand at the pinnacle.
The sun dances in her and she has an immense joy of life
Without trade the world will become what it was once—a hell where only the strongest arm and the heaviest lash was law. The meek will never inherit the earth. Aye, but at least they can be protected b...
That's the first rule of survival in enemy waters: volunteer nothing.
Trupul nu-i decat o biata coliba pierduta in pustie.
Then, alone once more, he split himself into the three persons that all generals of the Church must simultaneously be. First, the anointed Peter, first Bishop of Christ, with all that that spiritually...
It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret...
Fallibility in a leader is very trying. Isn’t it? They spill so much of other people’s blood.
God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.
Patience is important for a man, vital for a leader
The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.
Always remember, child... that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good...