When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.
For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greate… - Ihara Saikaku
For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greate…
- Ihara Saikaku
Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water. - Ihara Saikaku
Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.
Harshness is for the good of a boy, soft-heartedness will ruin him. - Ihara Saikaku
Harshness is for the good of a boy, soft-heartedness will ruin him.
In life it is training rather than birth which counts. - Ihara Saikaku
In life it is training rather than birth which counts.
To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient. - Ihara Saikaku
To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.
To think twice in every matter and follow the lead of others is no way to make money. - Ihara Saikaku
To think twice in every matter and follow the lead of others is no way to make money.
No longer can a young woman feel at ease; for she is ever concerned with the impression that she may be making on others. - Ihara Saikaku
No longer can a young woman feel at ease; for she is ever concerned with the impression that she may be making on others.
Ancient simplicity is gone...the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery. - Ihara Saikaku
Ancient simplicity is gone...the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery.
If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human. - Ihara Saikaku
If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.
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