If the cuckoo will not sing, kill it.
勝つことばかり知りて、負くることを知らざれば、害その身に至る。
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.
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