策略は衣服を必要とするが、真実は裸であることを好む。

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English Translation

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Furigana

策略(さくりゃく)は衣服(いふく)を必要(ひつよう)とするが、真実(しんじつ)は裸(はだか)であることを好(この)む。

Romanji

Sakuryaku wa ifuku o hitsuyō to suru ga, shinjitsu wa hadaka de aru koto o konomu.

Words

策略 (さくりゃく)

scheme; tactic; stratagem; trick

は (は)

topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis

衣服 (いふく)

clothes

を (を)

indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.

必要 (ひつよう)

necessary; needed; essential; indispensable; necessity; need; requirement

と (と)

if; when; and; with; particle used for quoting (with speech, thoughts, etc.); quoting particle; promoted pawn; indicates question (sentence end)

為る (する)

to do; to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into); to serve as; to act as; to work as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.); to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as; to decide on; to choose; to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.); to be (in a state, condition, etc.); to be worth; to cost; to pass (of time); to elapse; verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs"); creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go"); to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to

が (が)

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and

真実 (しんじつ、さな、さね)

truth; reality

裸 (はだか)

naked; nude; bare

だ (だ)

be; is; indicates past or completed action; indicates light imperative

或 (ある)

a certain ...; some ...

事 (こと、こん)

thing; matter; incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; circumstances; situation; state of affairs; work; business; affair; after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; nominalizing suffix; pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as

好む (このむ)

to like; to prefer