Sometimes full agreements, delicate agreements, should not be reduced into writing.
Only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing, make nothing but feed off another's labor?
Men need to whisper secrets, Lady. That’s what makes them different from us – they need to share secrets, but we women only reveal them to gain an advantage.
Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this Land of the Gods real and everlasting?
Isn't it only laughter we can stay human?
He had long since discovered that peaceful sleep could provide the answer to most puzzles, and if not, what did it really matter? Wasn’t life just a dewdrop within a dewdrop?
Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!
Godrot opium, he thought. But he knew that his life was inexorably tied to opium—and that without it neither The Noble House nor the British Empire could exist.
All the people have a right to vote, and no single man ever controls the destiny of any nation, either by divine right or by right of stupid votes of a stupid electorate.
Tomorrow does not exist. There is only .
Those fanatics’ll never live at peace with one another even though they could, easily. They will never bury their differences even if it costs them their stupid lives. He laughed
The skyScorched by the sun,
The meeting of the Council after the gai-jin had departed, for once, had been happy and filled with laughter at the enemy’s loss of face,
Secrets never leave you in peace, however much you wish or pray.
Our writers have always pointed the way for us, Mr. Grey, they’ve formed our thinking and feeling, Tolstoy, Dostoevski, Chekhov, Bunin … He added with pride, Writers with us are pathfinders.
Look at this sunset, it’s beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, n...
Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones, Anjin-san. patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate,...
I'm saying that some men are saints. Some are happy being meek and humble and unambitious. Some men are born content to be second-best.
How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable -- all at the same time?
For a woman, old age is never pretty.