An idea from Hagakure

Treat your nature like a sword. Keep it sharp in its sheath, and draw it now and then to wipe the blade. A man whose sword is always out has no friends. If the sword never leaves the sheath, it rusts, and people judge its owner the same way.

From Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo

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