Oltre la Morte

“Don't just say you have read books.

Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person.

Books are the training weights of the mind.

They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”

- Epictetus 🇬🇷 | The Art of Living

"It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues:

The knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds."

- Miguel de Cervantes 🇪🇸 | Don Quijote de La Mancha

"Men are divided in two groups:

The first one, infinite in number, is those of men who worry about mundane and common things, and who tread on roads already well explored by others.

The second one, which is very, very small, is that of men who are imbued with the extraordinary valor of knowing what they must do.

These men settle for nothing less than victory, and breathe the air of the next centuries, which will sing of their feats. These men live for eternity.

These are the men who are fascinated with discovering, and exploring, new roads.

For Alexander, this road led to Persia. For Columbus, this road was the route to India. For Napoleon, this road led to the conquest of the world. For San Martín, this road led to the liberation of America."

- Evita Perón 🇦🇷 | The Reason of My Life

"散るをいとふ世にも人にもさきがけて 散るこそ花と吹く小夜嵐"

"A small night storm blows
Saying 'falling is the essence of a flower'
Preceding those who hesitate."

- Yukio Mishima 🇯🇵 | Jisei (death poem)

"Fooled by your Leaders, who follow the sinister spirit of denial of the War, and of our Victory, you now march to give the Italian history a Christmas of blood in Fiume.

You, disillusioned brothers, please accept our salutes, best wishes and our best vows.

The newborn God in Galilee was given the name "Emmanuel" by His nightly choir of angels. This name, in the Eastern language, means "he who is the strongest".

And who, or what, is stronger than love?

Let it be stronger than you, let it be stronger than us, let it be stronger than every defeat, both yours and ours alike.

And, after these words, if needed be that we sacrifice ourselves, let us do so with a smile on our faces.

Fiume of Italy, Christmas 1920."

- Gabrielle D'Annunzio 🇮🇹 | To our brothers who besiege their brothers

"With banners furled and clarions mute,
An army passes in the night;
And beaming spears and helms salute
The dark with bright.

In silence deep the legions stream,
With open ranks, in order true;
Over boundless plains they stream and gleam —
No chief in view!

Afar, in twinkling distance lost,
(So legends tell) he lonely wends
And back through all that shining host,
His mandate sends."

- H. Melville 🇺🇸 | The Night March

"We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end. There is no other way.

Our duty is to hold on to the lost position, without hope, without rescue, like that Roman soldier whose bones were found in front of a door in Pompeii, who, during the eruption of Vesuvius, died at his post because they forgot to relieve him.

That is greatness. That is what it means to be a thoroughbred.

The honorable end is the one thing that can not be taken from a man."

- Oswald Spengler 🇩🇪 | Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life

"Now I can die, as this is what I had wished for: that the reasons we fight for are understood, that the cause we wish to defend is known.

Let all come and see us by themselves, let them study us and tell others what they learned:

That we are men of honor, and not bandits."

- Emiliano Zapata 🇲🇽