"For the whole glory of virtue is in action.”
— Cicero

"Apollo heard his prayer. He came down furious from the summits of Olympus, with his bow and his quiver upon his shoulder, and the arrows rattled on his back with the rage that trembled within him. He sat himself down away from the ships with a face as dark as night, and his silver bow rang death as he shot his arrow in the midst of them. First he smote their mules and their hounds, but presently he aimed his shafts at the people themselves, and all day long the pyres of the dead were burning."
— Homer, The Iliad

“For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.”
― Goethe

A conversation with a friend whose resilience in his life has always given me spiritual STRENGTH of WILL:

"I'm surrounded by tragedy and it gives me strength."

It seems trite, but if you knew what he was going through, you would hear these words and when they landed on your heart you would feel a FLAME OF VIGOR, like I do. Be strong. Let what destroys the many leaven you and make you a man amongst men!

The future belongs to us!

Virtù is its own reward.

"A rich and powerful soul not only gets over painful and even terrible losses, deprivations, robberies, and insults: it actually leaves such dark infernos in possession of still greater plenitude and power."
— Nietzsche

Be radical, have principles, be absolute, be that which the bourgeoisie calls an extremist: give yourself without counting or calculating, don't accept what they call ‘the reality of life' and act in such a way that you won't be accepted by that kind of ‘life', never abandon the principle of struggle.
- Julius Evola