Their summons called
From every band and squared regiment,
By place or choice the worthiest.

Milton's Paradise Lost (Book I, 757-759)
Art: Gustave Doré

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The wolf is not just that devouring force or predatory destructive force in our lives.

Metaphorically, it is also the fiercely protective force that makes us feel safe and guarded.

The wolf is not always the villain.

The reason you think vampires are hot is because you want to be craved so badly that your essence sustains another person.

"Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory." – General Patton

Unveiling of the Column of Victory at Berlin, Germany, 1873 Engraving

"I was with them, and yet I was alone."
– Albert Camus

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
– Eleanor Roosevelt

"Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it."
Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Finally, we all arise from seed celestial,
Because the same sky overhead is
father of us all...
And that which was sent down to earth
from heaven's aethereal shore
Is taken up again into the quarters of the sky.

– Lucretius
The Nature of Things, Book II: 991 - 1001

Napoleon in front of Charlemagne‘s throne in Aachen

IMPERIUM EUROPA EST PATRIA NOSTRA

“Am I in love? Absolutely. I'm in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I'm a passionate lover. I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I'm unable to love anyone tangible. I have sacrificed a physical bond for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.”

— James Dean

"Some girls are full of heartache and poetry, and those are the kind of girls that try to save wolves instead of running away from them."
– Nikita Gill

Art: Ivan and the Gray Wolf by Stepan Gilev