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Yoshida Kenko quotes: Knowledge leads to deception; talent and ability only serve to increase earthly desires.

Knowledge leads to deception; talent and ability only serve to increase earthly desires.

Yoshida Kenko quotes: It is a fine thing when a man who thoroughly understands a subject is unwilling to open his mouth.

It is a fine thing when a man who thoroughly understands a subject is unwilling to open his mouth.

Yoshida Kenko quotes: It harms a man more to wound his heart than to hurt his body.

It harms a man more to wound his heart than to hurt his body.

Yoshida Kenko quotes: Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.

Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.

Yoshida Kenko quotes: On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at our ease, we bring forth the wine cups.

On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at our ease, we bring forth the wine cups.

Yoshida Kenko quotes: It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.

It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.

Yoshida Kenko quotes: You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl into the nose and devour the brain.

You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl into the nose and devour the brain.

Yoshida Kenko quotes: Though a man excels in everything, unless he has been a lover his life is lonely, and he may be likened to a jewelled cup which can contain no wine.

Though a man excels in everything, unless he has been a lover his life is lonely, and he may be likened to a jewelled cup which can contain no wine.

Yoshida Kenko quotes: Why should it be so difficult to carry something out right now when you think of it, to seize the instant?

Why should it be so difficult to carry something out right now when you think of it, to seize the instant?

Yoshida Kenko quotes: If life were eternal, all interest and anticipation would vanish. It is uncertainty which lends it fascination.

If life were eternal, all interest and anticipation would vanish. It is uncertainty which lends it fascination.

Yoshida Kenko quotes: If you rely neither on yourself nor on others, you will rejoice when things go well, and not be aggrieved when they don't.

If you rely neither on yourself nor on others, you will rejoice when things go well, and not be aggrieved when they don't.

Yoshida Kenko quotes: All things of this phenomenal world are mere illusion. They are worth neither discussing nor desiring.

All things of this phenomenal world are mere illusion. They are worth neither discussing nor desiring.

Yoshida Kenko quotes: Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.

Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.

Yoshida Kenko quotes: There is a deep contradiction in failing to enjoy life and yet fearing death when faced with it.

There is a deep contradiction in failing to enjoy life and yet fearing death when faced with it.

Yoshida Kenko quotes: It is foolish to be in thrall to fame and fortune, engaged in painful striving all your life with never a moment of peace and tranquillity.

It is foolish to be in thrall to fame and fortune, engaged in painful striving all your life with never a moment of peace and tranquillity.

Yoshida Kenko quotes: A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.

A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.

Yoshida Kenko quotes: It's the ephemeral nature of things that makes them wonderful.

It's the ephemeral nature of things that makes them wonderful.

Yoshida Kenko quotes: There is nothing finer than to be alone with nothing to distract you.

There is nothing finer than to be alone with nothing to distract you.

Yoshida Kenko quotes: I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky

I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky

Yoshida Kenko quotes: The longer you live, the greater your share of shame.

The longer you live, the greater your share of shame.

Yoshida Kenko quotes: For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.

For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.

Yoshida Kenko quotes: The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.

The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.

Yoshida Kenko quotes: Life's most precious gift is uncertainty.

Life's most precious gift is uncertainty.