Rome's lesson is simple and brutal: what is not defended will be devoured. — Return to Fire #RTF #ReturnToFire #StoicLife #Stoicism #AncientWisdom #DailyPhilosophy #Stoic #StoicMindset

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. — Thoreau #RTF #StoicLife #UncompromisingTruth #Stoicism #StoicMindset #AncientWisdom #DailyPhilosophy #Stoic

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. — Musashi #RTF #StoicLife #UncompromisingTruth #Stoicism #StoicMindset #AncientWisdom #DailyPhilosophy #Stoic

And life itself told me this secret: Behold, it said, I am that which must overcome itself again and again. — Nietzsche #RTF #StoicLife #UncompromisingTruth #Stoicism #StoicMindset #AncientWisdom #DailyPhilosophy #Stoic

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. — Churchill #RTF #StoicLife #UncompromisingTruth #Stoicism #StoicMindset #AncientWisdom #DailyPhilosophy #Stoic

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. — Marcus Aurelius #RTF #StoicLife #UncompromisingTruth #Stoicism #StoicMindset #AncientWisdom #DailyPhilosophy #Stoic

It is precisely in times of immunity from care that the soul should toughen itself. — Seneca #RTF #StoicLife #UncompromisingTruth #Stoicism #StoicMindset #AncientWisdom #DailyPhilosophy #Stoic