Loyalty, Part 4 – In the Moonlight

IV. In The Moonlight

“Narutami Hyogo said, ‘What is called winning is defeating one’s allies. Defeating one’s allies is defeating oneself, and defeating oneself is vigorously overcoming one’s own body.’”

- from the pages of the HAGAKURE, the handbook of the samurai

Loyalty, Part 5 – Super Drive

V. Super Drive

“Last year at a great conference there was a certain man who explained his dissenting opinion and said that he was resolved to kill the conference leader if it was not accepted. His motion was passed. After the procedures were over the man said, ‘Their assent came quickly. I think that they are too weak and unreliable to be counselors to the master.’”

- from the pages of the HAGAKURE, the handbook of the samurai