The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is as thread. “If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The way of the carpenter is to become proficient in the use of his tools, first to lay his plans with true measure and then perform his work according to plan. If a gentlemen dislikes strategy he will not appreciate the benefit of weaponry, so must he not have a little taste for this?” The way of the warrior is to master the virtue of his weapons. “Thirdly, the gentlemen warrior, carrying the weaponry of his way. The way of the merchant is always to live by taking profit.” His ingredients and puts them to use to make his living.
Through to autumns with an eye on the changes of the season.”
Using agricultural instruments, he sees springs “As if with the nut and flower, the nut has become less than the flower…īoth those teaching and those learning are concerned with colouring and showing off their technique, trying to hasten the bloom of the flower.” “The way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.” “When you have attained the way of strategy there will be nothing that you cannot understand. “Cutting down the enemy is the way of strategy,Īnd there is no need for many refinements of it.” “Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.” “Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. “The arts of peace and the arts of war are like two wheels of a cart which, lacking one, will have difficulty in standing.” “Having been born into the house of a warrior, one’s intentions should be to grasp the long and the short swords and to die.”