The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.

Love is a Christian word, Anjin-san. Love is a Christian thought, a Christian ideal. We have no word for 'love' as I understand you to mean it. Duty, loyalty, honor, respect, desire, those words and thoughts are what we have, all that we need.

There is no dignity for either the sufferer or the torturer

.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.

Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting?

What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?

What can I do to help thee?" he asked. "Believe there is a tomorrow.