Home » Quote » Heraclitus » „Ten thousand do not turn the scale against a single man of worth.“ „Ten thousand do not turn the scale against a single man of worth.“ — Heraclitus Related quotes „To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.“ — William Shakespeare „To master the virtue of the long sword is to govern the world and oneself, thus the long sword is the basis of strategy. The principle is "strategy by means of the long sword". If he attains the virtue of the long sword, one man can beat ten men. Just as one man can beat ten, so a hundred men can beat a thousand, and a thousand men can beat ten thousand. In my strategy, one man is the same as ten thousand, so this strategy is the complete warrior's craft.“ — Miyamoto Musashi „Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.“ — Jr.