“To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.”
Book III, ch. 4.
The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)
Ihara Saikaku: Fortune
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“Like ice beneath the sun's rays — to such poverty did he fall…his fortune melted to water.”
Book III, ch. 5.
The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)
“If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.”
Book III, ch. 4.
The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)