There are 3 elements essential in the matters of the State, Food, Military equipment, and Confidence of the people in the ruler.
Of these 3, Military Equipment is the least important, Food being the 2nd important, and Confidence of the people being the MOST important.
All men rather die of starvation than in war, but nevertheless all men do die of old age.
Lacking in Confidence from the people, a state cannot survive.
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say that your main crop is the forest.
say that your main crop is the forest.
Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die.
Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die.
To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.
To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.I awoke -- and found that life was duty.
I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.I awoke -- and found that life was duty.
Never put much confidence in such, as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly read more
Never put much confidence in such, as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have read more
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
