"If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life, and only then will I be free to become myself."
— Martin Heidegger

The consuming fire of youthful adventure is a constant test of one's Will. It is better to die than succumb to the seductive luxuries of a 'quiet' life of decay!

Fearlessness is the ultimate expression of self-control.

What a cringe take. Read Valentine de Saint Point. https://www.unknown.nu/futurism/lust.html

Lust excites energy and releases strength. Pitilessly it drove primitive man to victory, for the pride of bearing back a woman the spoils of the defeated. Today it drives the great men of business who run the banks, the press and international trade to increase their wealth by creating centers, harnessing energies and exalting the crowds, to worship and glorify with it the object of their lust. These men, tired but strong, find time for lust, the principal motive force of their action and of the reactions caused by their actions affecting multitudes and worlds. - Valentine de Saint Point

Laughing at your fears and doubts as you rush by them into action must be one of the greatest joys. Is this self-cruelty? Is this self-overcoming? The latter necessitating the former no doubt. This must be the feeling Nietzsche describes in the aphorism “happiness is the feeling of power increasing —of resistance being overcome.”

“I shall die a horrible death, but the world has never seen such a terror and such a sea of blood as it shall see now.”

~ Roman von Ungern-Sternberg

Wisely show yourself spirited and resolute when perils press you; likewise reef your sails when they swell too much by a favoring breeze.
• Horace

I live my life like the Count of Monte Cristo. Royalty of the soul, in exile, preparing to conquer my enemy, enjoying my ordeals, savoring my friendships, and never losing sight of what is most beautiful in the divine.

I hope you all can see you were born for more. You were all born to be Princes and rulers in your own right especially if you find yourself here in this underground margin of society. Together, we will learn both sword and book, escape our Chateau d'If, secure our treasure of the late Espada, and exact our revenge on the lowly Mondego!
Come with me, my friends!
The sun will shine on our fates together.

Affectionately yours,
Ronin

P.S. Watch or read "The Count of Monte Cristo"

"Time works with heavy tools, and in the battle for some slag-heap of horror, over whose wretched smoke rival conceptions of the world’s future are locked in demoniac strife, it is not a question of the few thousand men who may perhaps be rescued from destruction, but of the dozen or two survivors who are there in the nick of time to turn the scales with their machine-guns or their bombs. That is a view of the world’s destiny which few have the iron nerve and masculine force to bear, and yet one may be proud to live in a time when such a spirt has shaped events to its mould of tempered steel."
~ Ernst Jünger, Copse 125

The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli, 1910-11, Carlo Carra

Comments on the effects of winter conditions during the battle for Moscow: “The decision over a battle won or lost had moved from the operational level, beyond the tactical level, down to the simple question of whether one tank, one antitank gun, or twenty soldiers could be moved to a threatened position.” —Hermann Balck, Order in Chaos

We are men who dream during the day, like we did when we were little boys.
Dreamers of beautiful Kingdoms and fierce knightly deeds, great romances with beauteous ladies and knowledge of powerful mysteries.
We are knights, who live our tales from the moment we open our eyes until we shut them, day in and day out until, finally, we never open them again and thus are reborn anew.
For we are a brave and mighty few!
My friends, we are knights on a grail quest!

"All world-improvers are Socialists. And consequently there are no Classical world-improvers."

- Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West

Demagoguery and utopian ideas are inherently un-aristocratic and anti-traditional. No great man ever asked for approval to conquer. They did not waste time arguing 'their side' and daydreaming about idealized scenarios. Empires are built by the sword. The praxis of great men is violence.