Ihara Saikaku: Quotes about life

Ihara Saikaku was Japanese writer. Explore interesting quotes on life.
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“Heaven says nothing, and the whole earth grows rich beneath its silent rule. Men, too, are touched by heaven's virtue; yet, in their greater part, they are creatures of deceit. They are born, it seems, with an emptiness of soul, and must take their qualities wholly from things without. To be born thus empty into this modern age, this mixture of good and ill, and yet steer through life on an honest course to the splendors of success — this is a feat reserved for paragons of our kind, a task beyond the nature of the normal man.”

Ihara Saikaku

Book I, ch. 1.
The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)

“The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.”

Ihara Saikaku

Book I, ch. 1.
The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)

“In life it is training rather than birth which counts.”

Ihara Saikaku

Book I, ch. 3.
The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)

“Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.”

Ihara Saikaku

Book I, ch. 1.
The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)