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5. “Given that all must die, it is better to die with distinction than to live long.” — Musonius Rufus

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PRINCE TOKUGAWA YOSHINOBU

Anyone can enter the toughest battle and die. This is easy for a common thug, but for a samurai true determination is in impartiality, and true virtue is knowing to live when you must live, and to die when you must die.

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“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. Life is long if you know how to use it.”

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