“Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.”
— John C. Maxwell

At the beginning a man was wealthy because he was powerful — now he is powerful because he has money. Intellect reaches the throne only when money puts it there. Democracy is the completed equating of money with political power.
- Oswald Spengler

Are you going to be weak or strong?
Are you going to be healthy or unhealthy?
Are you going to improve your life, or are you going to make it worse?
Are you going to sacrifice long-term success for short-term gratification?

You know the right answer, make the right decision.

“Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

May the shape of the future be cut by your sword.

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In the darkness, a voice whispered unto me, "You can not withstand the storm".

And I whispered back into the darkness, "I am the storm".

*"A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! Everywhere the mediocre are combining in order to make themselves master! Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the ends of the “people” or the “feminine,” works in favor of suffrage universel, i.e., the dominion of inferior men. But we should take reprisal and bring this whole affair (which in Europe commenced with Christianity) to light and to the bar of judgment."

— The Will to Power*

Focusing on outcomes can be overwhelming and lead to procrastination. Instead: “Concentrate every minute,” Marcus Aurelius wrote, “on doing what’s in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, determinedly, willingly, with justice.”

In the end, it is the strength of the warrior that protects beauty, not the flowery language of poets who hymn it.
Beauty is honored by the spilled blood of warriors more so than the ink of poets.