A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

The final reward of the dead - to die no more

The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.

Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.