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

Gratitude is not weakness. Gratitude is a weapon. — Return to Fire #RTF

You always own the option of having no opinion. — Marcus Aurelius #RTF

We are wiser when in the midst of adversity. It is prosperity that takes away righteousness. — Seneca #RTF

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease. — Lao Tzu #RTF

You were never too much. They were simply too little. — Return to Fire #RTF

Day and night stand equal. From here the dark takes ground every hour. What you build in the dark when no one is watching is all you carry out into the sun. — Return to Fire #RTF

Do nothing which is of no use. — Musashi #RTF

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. — Thoreau #RTF