The aim of learning is the formation of character.

There is a secret key to nurturing your health. This key is an essential secret transmission that any person aiming to take good care of himself must understand and observe.  The secret is in the single word decrease.  Decrease means to reduce all of your ten thousand affairs and avoid increasing them.  Be frugal in everything or, in other words, decrease your desires.

Kaibara Ekken (1630-1714) was a Japanese philosopher and writer.