Quotes

“Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.”
The Japanese Family Storehouse, Book I
“Like ice beneath the sun’s rays — to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.”
The Japanese Family Storehouse, Book III
“If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done.”
The Japanese Family Storehouse, Book III
“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.”
The Japanese Family Storehouse, Book III
“There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.”
The Japanese Family Storehouse, Book II

Ihara Saikaku