Experience is the teacher of all things.

The die is cast.

Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt.

Youth on horseback has passed. The world is at peace and white hairs multiply. With what remains of life that heaven permits, how can I not enjoy it?

-- The 'One-Eyed Dragon' of northern Japan who carved

信玄の兵法に、のちの勝ちを大切にするとある。それもよいが、わしは先の勝ちを大切にする。

-- The 'Dragon of Echigo' — a Sengoku-era warlord whose devotion to righteous warfare and Buddhist faith made him Japan's most paradoxical military figure

There is nothing to be done about it.

-- The revolutionary warlord who dismantled feudal Japan's medieval order and launched the country toward unification

This man might be the one to seize the realm.

-- Toyotomi Hideyoshi's chief strategist and the architect of his greatest victories

Before wine, one should sing — for how long is life? Like morning dew, so many days have passed.

-- The dominant warlord of China's Three Kingdoms era

An army's strength lies not in numbers, but in discipline.

-- A 4th-century BCE Chinese general and military the