Real courage: live when it's right to live.
Nitobe Inazo, Bushido, ch. 4 (Courage, the Spirit of Daring and Bearing)
Real courage: live when it's right to live.
Nitobe Inazo, Bushido, ch. 4 (Courage, the Spirit of Daring and Bearing)
The source
"Real courage: live when it's right to live." Nitobe Inazo said it in Bushido, ch. 4 (Courage, the Spirit of Daring and Bearing). Nitobe wrote it in English (1900). Our line is a modern rendering.
"it is true courage to live when it is right to live, and to die only when it is right to die"Nitobe Inazo, 1900, Bushido, ch. 4 (Courage, the Spirit of Daring and Bearing). English: Bushido, the Soul of Japan (1900), Project Gutenberg 12096; Nitobe quoting a Prince of Mito.
Who said it
Nitobe Inazo (1862–1933). Wrote Bushido: The Soul of Japan in English in 1900 to explain the samurai code to the West.
Questions
- Who said "Real courage: live when it's right to live."?
- Nitobe Inazo (1862–1933). Source: Bushido, ch. 4 (Courage, the Spirit of Daring and Bearing).
- What is the original wording?
- it is true courage to live when it is right to live, and to die only when it is right to die (Nitobe Inazo, 1900). Nitobe wrote it in English (1900). Our line is a modern rendering.
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