Respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help.

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  Do nothing which is of no use.

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

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  Do not act following customary beliefs.

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  Imagined dangers are the deepest, and imagined enemies are the most bloodthirsty.

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  There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

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  If your mind stops at your opponent’s sword, you lose your freedom to act.

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