A thousand days of training is called forging; ten thousand days of training is called tempering.

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  Do nothing which is of no use.

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  Respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help.

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  Do not act following customary beliefs.

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  Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

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  Every generation, no doubt, believes itself called to remake the world. Mine knows that it will not remake it.

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  There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

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