The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.
—Yoshida Kenko
Topics: Beginnings, Beginning
Ambition never comes to an end.
—Yoshida Kenko
Topics: Ambition
A man who studies wisdom, even insincerely, should be called wise.
—Yoshida Kenko
One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice, and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him.
—Yoshida Kenko
Topics: Wine
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations—such is a pleasure beyond compare.
—Yoshida Kenko
Topics: Reading, Solitude, Books
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