There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.
Quotes from The Japanese Family Storehouse — Ihara Saikaku
d. 1693 Japan
14 quotes
The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)
If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.
The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)
To think twice in every matter and follow the lead of others is no way to make money.
The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)
Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.
The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)
The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.
The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)
Harshness is for the good of a boy, soft-heartedness will ruin him.
The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)
In life it is training rather than birth which counts.
The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)
If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done.
The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)
Ancient simplicity is gone...the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery.
The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)
To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.
The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)
Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.
The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)
Like ice beneath the sun's rays — to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.
The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)
The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ihara Saikaku (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.