Ihara Saikaku Quote

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


Book III, ch. 4. - The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)


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

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

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

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