The Exceptional Man
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try…
On Obeying Yourself
As many an ordinary man, who carefully attempts to fashion his shape according to the greater, who are out of shape, hardly worthy of emulation. Remember why, as he picks out a sense of estrangement from the degenerate crowd. It is good to be upstanding, but bad when you don't know that for yourself.
On Learning and Wisdom
Agesilaus was once asked what children ought to be taught, he replied, ‘What they should do when they are grown up.’ Further, when he encouraged Xenophon to have his boys raised in Sparta, it was neither for rhetoric nor argumentation, but to learn the most worthy discipline there is: ‘how to obey and how to command.’
Sense and Responsibility
Courageous deeds bring out the worth of man: the battleground being the expanding landscape, where safety is off duty and menace ever nearby.
On Persistence
If truth be told, is there a more betraying mark of singular character than your ability to show determination with things that clamour for courage and tenacity when the longing to relent is exceptionally irresistible? That sensible proverb is ever pertinent, “Constancy is the mark of virtue.”
Purpose, Pain and Progress
We engage in the most rigorous self-analysis in the face of terrible misfortune. It aids you in scrutinizing your life more earnestly and with greater zeal. It is at this point that you reach a pivotal breaking point that incites rapid improvement, as you are altogether bullied into rectifying things: not tomorrow, not in an hour, but right this very moment with the utmost gravity and tenacity.
On Anger
Man should not pursue pleasure by a desire for gratification and satiate himself with vengeance. For, to rejoice in punishment is animalistic, and to later be remorseful about it is womanish. By preference, man should hold back till both pleasure and anguish abate and his rationality recovers.
The Ages of Man: Maturity and Withdrawal
“Socrates says that youth must get educated; grown men employ themselves in good actions; old men withdraw from…
Rejection and Honour
Rejection is not pleasant. When you have a certain attachment to your ego and you have painted a…
On Man’s Ignorance
“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You don’t know what you…
