¤People with intelligence will use it to fashion things both true and false and will try to push through whatever they want with their clever reasoning. This is injury from intelligence. Nothing you do will have effect if you do not use the truth.
¤Men who did well at the time of their deaths were men of real bravery. There are many examples of such. But people who talk in an accomplished fashion everyday yet are agitated at the time of their death can be known not to have true bravery.
¤Dreams are truthful manifestations. When I occasionally have dreams of dying in battle or committing seppuku, if I brace myself with courage, my frame of mind within the dream gradually changes.
¤A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's.
¤I've grown so old that now, even if there were to be a battle, I wouldn't be able to do anything. Still, I would like to die by galloping into the midst of the enemy and being struck down and killed. It would be a shame to do nothing more then to die in one's bed.
¤One should search throughout his whole life how best to follow the way. and he should study , setting his mind to work without putting things off. Within this is the way.
¤When I have faced the enemy, of course it is like being in the dark. But if at that time i tranquilize my mind, it becomes like a night lit by a pale moon. If I begin my attack from that point, I feel as though I will not be wounded. This is the situation at the moment of truth.
¤You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of faith. Good and bad actions are man's way. Retribution of good and evil is not simply as a moral lesson.
¤Not to borrow the strength of another, nor to rely on one's own strength; to cut off past and future thoughts, and not to live with him the everyday mind... Then the great way is right before one's eyes.
¤People who talk on and on about others of little importance probably have some complaint in the back of their mind. But in order to be ambiguous and to hide this they repeat what they are saying over and over. To hear something like this causes doubt to rise in one's breast.
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