Takeda Nobushige Quotes

• Good medicine is bitter to the mouth, but has an effect on the disease. Faithful words hurt one's ears, but have value for one's conduct.

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  Hurt, Medicine, Faithful

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• One must not be negligent in learning. In the Lun Yu it says: "To study and not to think is darkness. To think without study is dangerous."

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  War, Thinking, Darkness

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• The man who hunts a deer does not gaze at the mountains.

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  Men, Mountain, Doe

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• In the Wu Tzu it says: 'He who would save his life shall lose it, and he who would give up his life shall save it.'

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  Giving Up, War, Giving

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• When one would make a surprise attack on the enemy, he should avoid the major roads and seek out the lesser ones. Then attack.

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  War, Enemy, Surprise

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• One should not utter a word about his own inadequacies. In the Oxo it says: 'When a man lets out a single word, the long and short of him will be known.'

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  War, Men, Long

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• One's soldier should not abuse the enemy. 'Arouse a bee and it will come at you with the force of a dragon.

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  Dragons, Soldier, Abuse

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• One must never be perfidious to his master. In the Lun Yu it says: One should act according to the way even in times of haste. One should act according to the way even in times of danger. It says further: 'When one is serving his master, he should exert himself.'

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  War, Haste, Way

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• When one is serving his master, he should exert himself.

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  Should, Masters, Serving

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