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Top 20 quotes by Miyamoto Musashi
1. “You should investigate this thoroughly.”
2. “The ultimate aim of martial arts is not having to use them.”
3. “Know the smallest things and the biggest things, the shallowest things and the deepest things.”
4. “There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.”
5. “From one thing, know ten thousand things.”
6. “You can win with a long weapon, and yet you can also win with a short weapon. In short, the Way of the Ichi school is the spirit of winning, whatever the weapon and whatever its size.”
7. “Study the Ways of all professions.”
8. “All man are the same except for their belief in their own selves, regardless of what others may think of them.”
9. “Do nothing which is of no use.”
10. “You should not have any special fondness for a particular weapon, or anything else, for that matter. Too much is the same as not enough. Without imitating anyone else, you should have as much weaponry as suits you.”
