Ihara Saikaku Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“No longer can a young woman feel at ease; for she is ever concerned with the impression that she may be making on others.”
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“Men take their misfortunes to heart and keep them there.”
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“And why do so many people wilfully exhaust their strength in promiscuous living, when their wives are on hand from bridal night till old age - to be taken when required, like fish from a private pond.”
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“Harshness is for the good of a boy, soft-heartedness will ruin him.”
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“Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.”
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“If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.”
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“For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty.”
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“To think twice in every matter and follow the lead of others is no way to make money.”
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“When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.”
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“Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.”
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“Ancient simplicity is gone...the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery.”
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“In life it is training rather than birth which counts.”
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“The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.”
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“If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done.”
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“To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.”
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“There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.”
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“Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.”
-- Ihara Saikaku
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