“Indeed valor and honor alike required that we should own as enemies in war only…”

Indeed valor and honor alike required that we should own as enemies in war only such as prove worthy of being friends in peace.

Inazō Nitobe Bushido: The Soul of Japan, 1908

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Inazō Nitobe 1862–1933 · Japanese educator and diplomat; author of Bushido: The Soul of Japan, written in English. Wikipedia