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โMy policy is to govern men the way the great majority wants to be governed.โ
Napoleon Bonaparte
โTo die like that,
as one day I saw him die [...]
Bold and profound,
a dancer in the battle;
the most laughing among the fighters,
the most serious among the victors,
holding a fate above his fateโ
Friedrich Nietzsche
โThe martial virtues must be the enduring cement; intrepidity, contempt of softness, surrender of private interest, obedience to command, must still remain the rock upon which states are built.โ
William James (1842โ 1910)
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"The God of War is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands it out."
๐๐ญ๐ช๐ข๐ฅ, ฮฃ 309
Painting: William Heath Robinson, "Mars Wounded by Diomed Returning to Olympus".
โTo stand firm against all powers, never to yield, to show oneself strongโthat calls to one's aid the arms of the gods.โ
Goethe
The claim that the unrest, looting and destruction in #France are being carried out by university and high school students amounts to a form of slander against French students. They are thirdworlders immigrants.
Lysander ๐ฌ๐ท retweeted
In the early 19th century, a sensitive young American with a penchant for languages could go anywhere and do anything: self-taught surgeon, botanist, diplomat, alchemist, warlord.
โWhat was there in the world more Western than Mozart, more civilized, more perfect? No eight hundred thousand voices could drone their chant to Mozart's notes. Mozart had never written to stir the masses, but to touch the heart of each single human being, in his private self.โ
ALT Jean Raspail (1925 โ 2020)
One encountered such scenes when cities were overrun by the Islamists during the Middle Ages. In their wars against one another, no matter how fiercely or ruthlessly they fought, Europeans took care to protect the monuments of their shared cultural heritage.
โIf you can dreamโand not make dreams your master;
If you can thinkโand not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the sameโ
Rudyard Kipling
Painting: John R. Wildman, โCommander James Clark Rossโ, 1834.
โEpitaph on an Army of Mercenariesโ
โThese, in the day when heaven was falling,
The hour when earthโs foundations fled,
Followed their mercenary calling
And took their wages and are dead.
Alexander the Great carried the Iliad with him on his eastern conquests, keeping it, Plutarch said, with a dagger under his pillow, โdeclaring that he esteemed it a perfect portable treasure of all military virtue and knowledge.โ
โNo easy hope or lies
Shall bring us to our goal,
But iron sacrifice
Of body, will, and soul.โ
Rudyard Kipling
โTo begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death.โ
Montaigne
โA body that has been disciplined through struggle possesses a kind of moral beauty that no sermon can equal.โ
โ โSun and Steelโ
"The interest of the worldโs history was at stake: the interest of Spirit was there decided. [...] It was the victory of the Greek principle of individuality over the Asiatic mass and its despotism."
Hegel
