It's Fun to Pretend?

Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable... why is it that their suitors have to resort to such trickery to have their way with them? 

- Christine de Pizan, 1364

Once you've learned that, you will not fear death and you will be a true Samurai

“This body is not me; I am not caught in this body, I am life without boundaries, I have never been born and I have never died. Over there the wide ocean and the sky with many galaxies All manifests from the basis of consciousness. Since beginningless time I have always been free. Birth and death are only a door through which we go in and out. Birth and death are only a game of hide-and-seek. So smile to me and take my hand and wave good-bye. Tomorrow we shall meet again or even before. We shall always be meeting again at the true source, Always meeting again on the myriad paths of life.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh, No Death, No Fear