Introduction: The Samurai Ideal and the New Samurai |
Do Not Be Afraid of Change; It is the Only Thing That's Dependable / 1: |
Think Well of Yourself and Let That Be Your Answer / 2: |
No One is Responsible for Your Fallacies-Probably Not Even Yourself / 3: |
It is Better to Take the Easy Way In Rather Than the Easy Way Out / 4: |
Accept Pure Harmony in Your Mind and Body; If It Isn't There, Demand It of Yourself / 5: |
If Advice Cannot Be Changed It Isn't Based in Reality, Except for What You Tell Others / 6: |
Things Too Easy to Get are Generally Too Hard to Keep / 7: |
A Person Who Truly Sees a Difference in Things Sees Sameness in All Things / 8: |
Focus on Principles, Not Politics / 9: |
Too Many Books Cause Confusion-Except for the Ones You Write / 10: |
The Goods Men Derive From Conquest Drives Them Mad for More / 11: |
The Universe Knows What it Wants You to Be and Do-and So Do You, Which is Why You Reject It / 12: |
Accept the Target's Acceptance / 13: |
Take It / 14: |
Clever People Have Little Self-Esteem and So They Always Look to Get Over on Someone / 15: |
Money is Not the Root of Evil but the Meaningless Things It Buys are Evil / 16: |
Ease and Grace. Do It All with Ease and Grace, Even That With Ease and Grace / 17: |
Do Not Seek to Command; Seek to Teach. Do Not Seek to Obey; Seek to Understand / 18: |
Time Stands Still if You Go Fast Enough / 19: |
Royalty Suggests Arrogance Until Overthrown by Humility; Then It Becomes Arrogance Again / 20: |
Water Penetrates the Hardest Stone as All Gives Way to Persistence / 21: |
In Power and Quickness is Strength and Speed / 22: |
In Times of Strife Wise Men May Use Evil with More Alacrity Than You Ever Could / 23: |
Deeds are More Important Than Words, but Not to Poets / 24: |
Appreciate Yourself or You Won't Be Appreciated / 25: |
People With Nothing to Say Always Have Something to Say / 26: |
Never Choose Cheap Goods-They are Much Too Costly / 27: |
The Heart is Essential If the Intellect is to Understand the Spirit / 28: |
It is Easier to Understand the Difficult Than the Simple / 29: |
Humble Opinions are Based on Not Knowing What You are Talking About / 30: |
To Perish Quickly Think Only of Yourself / 31: |
Education Should Never Be Confused with Learning / 32: |
Be Good to Yourself First and Then Worry About the Rest of the World / 33: |
If You Can't Do It Right, You Can't Do It Wrong / 34: |
If You're Gonna Play, Play-Don't Play / 35: |
Politeness is Not a Sign of Weakness / 36: |
Humility is Sometimes a Very Necessary Thing - Especially When You're Outnumbered / 37: |
Understand the Similarities of Fate and Free Will / 38: |
There is No Such Thing as Yin and Yang, Which is Not to Suggest That Yin and Yang Do Not Exist / 39: |
Deceptive Technique Should be Avoided Whenever Possible / 40: |
Hoping is Based on Non-Acceptance; Wishful Thinking is Willful Denial / 41: |
You Only Know Love If You Know Hate. It is Best to Know Neither, but Simply to Be / 42: |
Do What You Tell Yourself to Do and Don't Take No for an Answer / 43: |
People Will Believe in Anything That Works, Even When it Doesn't / 44: |
Don't Consider the Rewards of Your Work and the Results Will Be Better / 45: |
To Be One Thing, You Must Also be the Opposite / 46: |
Greatness Spreads Its Wealth Without Restriction Except to You, Right? / 47: |
Heaven is Obedient to All Things. If That Isn't True, Then You Aren't Here / 48: |
Be Sure You're Right and Then Proceed, Even If You're Wrong / 49: |
Give Life and Death to All Things but Don't Seek to Own Them / 50: |
Endeavor to Come to Terms With the Tragedy of Your Own Inconsequence / 51: |
When You See a Man in All of His Glory Know That He has Known, or Will Know Shame / 52: |
Say "Thank You," Even When You Mean It / 53: |
Conquering Your Fears is the Only Victory Worth Having-so is Conquering Your Joys / 54: |
Good Fortune can Be Quelled by Bad Behavior Even Though Bad Behavior is Sometimes Virtuous / 55: |
About the Author |
Introduction: The Samurai Ideal and the New Samurai |
Do Not Be Afraid of Change; It is the Only Thing That's Dependable / 1: |
Think Well of Yourself and Let That Be Your Answer / 2: |
No One is Responsible for Your Fallacies-Probably Not Even Yourself / 3: |
It is Better to Take the Easy Way In Rather Than the Easy Way Out / 4: |
Accept Pure Harmony in Your Mind and Body; If It Isn't There, Demand It of Yourself / 5: |