Don't scheme for your own comfort.
Miyamoto Musashi, Dokkodo 3
The source
"Don't scheme for your own comfort." Miyamoto Musashi said it in Dokkodo 3. Translated from the original Japanese by Spartan Surfers.
"身に樂をたくまず"Original Japanese, Dokkodo 3. Japanese: Miyamoto Musashi (Kinkodo, 1909), NDL digital text; Dokkodo numbered as in the 1909 nineteen-article text.
Who said it
Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584–1645). Undefeated swordsman who wrote The Book of Five Rings in a cave a few weeks before he died.
Questions
- Who said "Don't scheme for your own comfort."?
- Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584–1645). Source: Dokkodo 3.
- What is the original Japanese?
- 身に樂をたくまず. Translated from the original Japanese by Spartan Surfers.
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