Gonzalez - Marichal Family

Excerpt from The Way of the Samurai By: Yamaga Sokō "…For generation after generation, men have taken their livelihood from tilling the soil, or  devised and manufactured tools, or produced profit from mutual trade, so that peoples’ needs  were satisfied. Thus the occupations of farmer, artisan, and merchant necessarily grew up as  complementary to one another. But the samurai eats food without growing it, uses utensils  without manufacturing them, and profits without buying or selling.  What is the justification for  this?  When I reflect today on my pursuit in life, [I realize that] I was born into a family whose  ancestors for generations have been warriors and whose pursuit is service at court.   The samurai  is one who does not cultivate, does not manufacture, and does not engage in trade, but it cannot  be that he has no function at all as a samurai.  He who satisfies his needs without performing ...

Preface to his Prophecies  by Michel de Nostredame Greetings and happiness to Cesar Nostradamus my son. Your late arrival, Cesar Nostredame, my son, has made me spend much time in constant nightly reflection so that I could communicate with you by letter and leave you this reminder, after my death, for the benefit of all men, of which the divine spirit has vouchsafed me to know by means of astronomy. And since it was the Almighty's will that you were not born here in this region and I do not want to talk of years to come but of the months during which you will struggle to grasp and understand the work I shall be compelled to leave you after my death: assuming that it will not be possible for me to leave you such writing as may be destroyed through the injustice of the age. The key to the hidden prediction which you will inherit will be locked inside my heart. Also bear in mind that the events here described have not yet come to pass, and that all is ruled and gove...