There is nothing to be done about it.
人の一生は重荷を負うて遠き道を行くがごとし。急ぐべからず。
Military Strategists
Tokugawa Ieyasu
The founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate, who achieved through patience what others sought through force (1543-1616). After decades of subordination, strategic waiting, and calculated alliance-building, Ieyasu won the decisive Battle of Sekigahara and established a dynasty that ruled Japan in peace for 260 years.
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Tokugawa Ieyasu's Other Quotes
If the cuckoo will not sing, wait until it does.
If the cuckoo will not sing, wait until it does.
A human life of fifty years, compared to the span beneath heaven, is nothing but a dream, an illusion.
A human life of fifty years, compared to the span beneath heaven, is nothing but a dream, an illusion.
If the cuckoo will not sing, wait until it does.
Related Quotes
Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.
-- Zeno of Citium
人間五十年、下天の内をくらぶれば、夢幻のごとくなり。
-- Oda Nobunaga
If the cuckoo will not sing, wait until it does.
-- Tokugawa Ieyasu
If the cuckoo will not sing, wait until it does.
-- Tokugawa Ieyasu
A human life of fifty years, compared to the span beneath heaven, is nothing but a dream, an illusion.
-- Tokugawa Ieyasu
A human life of fifty years, compared to the span beneath heaven, is nothing but a dream, an illusion.
-- Tokugawa Ieyasu