Botchan Quotes

“Now that I thought about it, though, I realized that most people actually encourage you to turn bad. They seem to think that if you don't, you'll never get anywhere in the world. And then on those rare occasions when they encounter somebody who's honest and pure-hearted, they look down on him and say he's nothing but a kid, a Botchan. If that's the way it is, it would be better if they didn't have those ethics classes in elementary school and middle school where the teacher is always telling you to be honest and not lie. The schools might as well just go ahead and teach you how to tell lies, how to mistrust everybody, and how to take advantage of people. Wouldn't their students, and the world at large, be better off that way? Redshirt had laughed at me for being simpleminded. If people are going to get laughed at for being simpleminded and sincere, there's no hope. Kiyo never laughed at me for saying anything like what I said to Redshirt. She would have been deeply impressed by it. Compared to Redshirt, she's far and away the superior person.”
― Natsume Soseki, Botchan

“إن كان الصدق والبساطة يجعلان المرء عرضة للاستهزاء، فهذا يعني أنه لم يعد هناك أمل في هذا العالم”
― Sōseki Natsume, Botchan

“One may be branded foolishly honest if he takes seriously the apologies others might offer. We should regard all apologies a sham and forgiving also as a sham; then everything would be all right. If one wants to make another apologize from his heart, he has to pound him good and strong until he begs for mercy from his heart”
― Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

“المودة والكراهية هما ما يحرك العالم، وليس المنطق”
― Sōseki Natsume, Botchan

“Hanya karena seseorang pandai berargumen, tidak berarti orang itu orang baik. Sama halnya seseorang yang dikalahkan dalam argumen adalah orang jahat.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

“Kalau kau bisa membeli kekaguman seseorang dengan uang, kekuasaan, atau logika, maka lintah darat, polisi, dan profesor universitas akan memiliki lebih banyak pengagum daripada siapa pun.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

“من يغلبك بقوة حججه ليس بالضرورة شخصاً صالحاً”
― Sōseki Natsume, Botchan

“Ketika manusia bebas memutuskan untuk menghormatimu, hadiah yang kaumiliki lebih mahal nilainya daripada apapun.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

“Really, there’s nothing in the world as undependable as human beings.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

“إنه عالم غريب فعلاً، هذا الذي يحوي شخصاً تمقته فيبادلك الود، في حين يوجد آخر قريب منك يضمر لؤماً. عالم مهزلة!”
― Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

“ولا يمكن الوثوق برجل إن لم يكن مستقيمًا كعود القصب”
― Sōseki Natsume, Botchan

“If people's apologies aren't the real thing, you might as well think of their forgiveness as not being the real thing either.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

“If you could really win people's hearts over with the power of money, authority or reasoning, then moneylenders, policemen and college professors would be more popular than anybody else. People operate on their likes and dislikes, not on logic.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

“One who shines in argument is not necessarily a good fellow, while the other who is out-talked is not necessarily a bad fellow, either.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

“Because of an hereditary recklessness, I have been playing always a losing game since my childhood.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

“To get a genuine apology from somebody, you're going to have to keep beating them until their regret is genuine too.”
― Sōseki Natsume, Botchan

“التحدث عن مسائل لايفهمها الآخرون والتظاهر بأن غير مهم إن سمعوا لأنهم لم يفهمو فهذا أمر في منتهى الفظاظة”
― ناتسومي سوسيكي, Botchan

“I realized that most people actually encourage you to turn bad.they seem to think that if you don’t , you will never get anywhere in the world.”
― Natsume Soseki, Botchan

“On my arrival at Tokyo, I
rushed into her house swinging my valise, before going to a
hotel, with "Hello, Kiyo, I'm back!"
"How good of you to return so soon!" she cried and hot tears
streamed down her cheeks. I was overjoyed, and declared that
I would not go to the country any more but would start housekeeping
with Kiyo in Tokyo.
Some time afterward, some one helped me to a job as assistant
engineer at the tram car office. The salary was 25 yen a
month, and the house rent six. Although the house had not a
magnificent front entrance, Kiyo seemed quite satisfied, but, I
am sorry to say, she was a victim of pneumonia and died in
February this year. On the day preceding her death, she asked
me to bedside, and said, "Please, Master Darling, if Kiyo is
dead, bury me in the temple yard of Master Darling. I will be
glad to wait in the grave for my Master Darling."
So Kiyo's grave is in the Yogen temple at Kobinata.”
― Sōseki Natsume, Botchan

“لكن في حين كنت لاأزال أتكلم مع شخص لا يبعث فيّ سوى الريبة، بقي الكلام مقطوعاً بيني وبين الشّيهم الذي صرت أكن له الإعجاب. عجيب أمر هذا العالم!”
― Sōseki Natsume, Botchan

“Like the tradespeople who bow their heads low but never give up cheating the public, the students apologize but never stop their mischiefs. Society is made up, I think it probable, of people just like those students.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

“what chances have the simple-hearted or the pure in a society where they are made objects of contempt!”
― Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

“There is nothing so unreliable as people. You would never have thought, looking at the Madonna's face, that she would have been capable of being so heartless, but, nevertheless, there she was, a beautiful woman, being cruel. And there was Koga, with a face like a white pumpkin distended with water, a good, kind man and a gentleman. It never pays to take anyone at face value.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

“Third and fourth period were more or less the same, as was fifth period, after lunch. I made a few mistakes in every class. Teaching isn’t as easy as it looks.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

“الواقع أن البشر هم أقل ما يمكن الاعتماد عليه في هذا العالم.”
― Natsume Soseki, Botchan

“Age should never meddle with such a matter. Mind your own business.”
― Sōseki Natsume, Botchan

“ご覧の通りの始末である。行く先が案じられたのも無理はない。ただ懲役ちょうえきに行かないで生きているばかりである。”
― 夏目 漱石, Botchan

“Cuando aceptas una invitación, lo que haces en realidad es decirle a la otra persona que le tienes respeto y la aprecias... Quien acepta la invitación puede ser un don nadie, pero eso da igual. Basta con que sea un ser humano libre e independiente. El hecho de que ese hombre independiente te encuentre digno de respeto y aprecio es más valioso que un millón de yenes.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

“Los seres humanos obramos por lo que nos gusta y lo que nos disgusta, no por los razonamientos abstractos que se derivan de ello.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

“A person who enjoys looking at twisted plants or bamboo might as well just be proud of having a hunchbacked lover or lame husband.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Botchan