The end is important in all things.

It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this.

When someone is giving you his opinion, you should receive it with deep gratitude even though it is worthless. If you don't, he will not tell you the things that he has seen and heard about you again.

When one is writing a letter, he should think that the recipient will make it into a hanging scroll.

It is bad when one thing becomes two. One should not look for anything else in the Way of the Samurai. If one understands things in this manner, he should be able to hear about all Ways and be more and more in accord with his own.

If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy.

There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he will not be senile, he is already so.