Ihara Saikaku Quotes

• No longer can a young woman feel at ease; for she is ever concerned with the impression that she may be making on others.

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  Ease, May, Young

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• Ancient simplicity is gone...the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery.

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  People, Simplicity, Gone

  "The Japanese Family Storehouse" by Ihara Saikaku, (Book I, ch. 4), 1688.

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• In life it is training rather than birth which counts.

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  Training, Birth

  Saikaku Ihara (1955). “Nippon Eitaigura: The Way to Wealth”

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• For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty.

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  Physicians, Four, Poverty

  "The Japanese Family Storehouse" by Ihara Saikaku, (Book III, ch. 1), 1688.

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• To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.

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  Fate, Essentials, Fortune

  Saikaku Ihara (1959). “The Japanese Family Storehouse: Or, The Millionaire's Gospel Modernised. Nippon Eitai-gura, Or Daifuku Shin Chōja Kyō (1688)”, Cambridge University Press

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• If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done.

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  Done, Losing, Making Money

  Saikaku Ihara (1959). “The Japanese Family Storehouse: Or, The Millionaire's Gospel Modernised. Nippon Eitai-gura, Or Daifuku Shin Chōja Kyō (1688)”, Cambridge University Press

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• Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.

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  Fall, Ice, Water

  "The Japanese Family Storehouse" by Ihara Saikaku, (Book III, ch. 5), 1688.

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• If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.

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  Mean, Might, Born

  Saikaku Ihara (1959). “The Japanese Family Storehouse: Or, The Millionaire's Gospel Modernised. Nippon Eitai-gura, Or Daifuku Shin Chōja Kyō (1688)”, Cambridge University Press

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• To think twice in every matter and follow the lead of others is no way to make money.

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  Thinking, Matter, Way

  Saikaku Ihara (1955). “Nippon Eitaigura: The Way to Wealth”

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• Harshness is for the good of a boy, soft-heartedness will ruin him.

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  Boys, Ruins, Harshness

  Saikaku Ihara (1959). “The Japanese Family Storehouse: Or, The Millionaire's Gospel Modernised. Nippon Eitai-gura, Or Daifuku Shin Chōja Kyō (1688)”, Cambridge University Press

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• Men take their misfortunes to heart and keep them there.

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  Heart, Men, Misfortunes

  Saikaku Ihara (1958). “Five Japanese Love Stories”, London : Folio Societry

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• The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.

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  Earning, Firsts, Life Is

  Saikaku Ihara (1955). “Nippon Eitaigura: The Way to Wealth”

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• And why do so many people wilfully exhaust their strength in promiscuous living, when their wives are on hand from bridal night till old age - to be taken when required, like fish from a private pond.

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  Taken, Night, Lakes

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• Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.

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  Mother, Father, Giving

  Saikaku Ihara (1955). “Nippon Eitaigura: The Way to Wealth”

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• There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.

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  Upset, Careful, Humans

  Saikaku Ihara (1959). “The Japanese Family Storehouse, Or, The Millionaires' Gospel Modernised”, Cambridge University Press

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• Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.

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  House, Widows, Suitors

  Saikaku Ihara (1959). “The Japanese Family Storehouse, Or, The Millionaires' Gospel Modernised”, Cambridge University Press

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• When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.

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  Men, Choices, Clerks

  "The Japanese Family Storehouse" by Ihara Saikaku, (Book II, ch. 5), 1688.

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