Ihara Saikaku famous quotes

No longer can a young woman feel at ease; for she is ever concerned with the impression that she may be making on others.
-- Ihara Saikaku

#Ease #May #Young

Men take their misfortunes to heart and keep them there.
-- Ihara Saikaku

#Heart #Men #Misfortunes

And why do so many people wilfully exhaust their strength in promiscuous living, when their wives are on hand from bridal night till old age - to be taken when required, like fish from a private pond.
-- Ihara Saikaku

#Taken #Night #Lakes

Harshness is for the good of a boy, soft-heartedness will ruin him.
-- Ihara Saikaku

#Boys #Ruins #Harshness

Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.
-- Ihara Saikaku

#Fall #Ice #Water

If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.
-- Ihara Saikaku

#Mean #Might #Born

For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty.
-- Ihara Saikaku

#Physicians #Four #Poverty

To think twice in every matter and follow the lead of others is no way to make money.
-- Ihara Saikaku

#Thinking #Matter #Way

When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.
-- Ihara Saikaku

#Men #Choices #Clerks

Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.
-- Ihara Saikaku

#House #Widows #Suitors

Ancient simplicity is gone...the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery.
-- Ihara Saikaku

#People #Simplicity #Gone

In life it is training rather than birth which counts.
-- Ihara Saikaku

#Training #Birth

The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.
-- Ihara Saikaku

#Earning #Firsts #Life Is

If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done.
-- Ihara Saikaku

#Done #Losing #Making Money

To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.
-- Ihara Saikaku

#Fate #Essentials #Fortune

There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.
-- Ihara Saikaku

#Upset #Careful #Humans

Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.
-- Ihara Saikaku

#Mother #Father #Giving