"Fear is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. But so, it seems, is love. Love is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway. Without it, we cannot continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality."


When you believe a lie for too long, the truth doesn’t set you free, it tears you apart.


Stoicism is for Silver Men, for spirited men in the republic who are going to be our guardians. It's an excellent philosophy for military men and for public leaders if they intend to be virtuous, if they intend to pursue the public good. And stoicism is characterized by the rejection of human pleasure as the standard of happiness and felicity.
Stoicism takes the position that the wise man, the good man, the philosopher must live in accordance with nature. He fears only abdicating his moral responsibility.

He is not afraid of pain, He is not afraid of death. He is not afraid of poverty. He is not afraid of the vicissitudes of human condition. He fears only that he should let himself down. And that he should be less than a complete man.