When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.

As long as people overlook matters, then inferiors can, without any fear, lead an easy and peaceful life.

If a warrior is not unattached to life and death, he will be of no use whatsoever. The saying that “All abilities come from one mind” sounds as though it has to do with sentient matters, but it is in fact a matter of being unattached to life and death. With such non-attachment one can accomplish any feat.

Even if one's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should be able to do one more action with certainty.

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.

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

You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate.