Grand Pas

Aime le grand air et les belles lettres. Mos maiorum.

[Grand Pas @Luscinus]

"Plus grande chose est de savoir seigneurier sa volonté que seigneurier le monde."

Rosier des guerres, Instructions données par Louis XI à son fils, 1482.

[Magister Iācōbus @latinedisce]

“We learn not for school, but for life.”

— Seneca

[Words of Wise | Mindset Coach @Wordofwise_]

“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”

— Marcus Aurelius

[La femme merveilleuse invisible @larwoolf]

"Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now."
Marlon Brando, April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago:

“The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.”

[⚡️NEVERDOOMPRO⚡️ @NEVERDOOMPRO]

NEVER DOOM.

[ｅｔｈｒ☾ @Ethresthetic]

- s t r e n g t h

[Magister Iācōbus @latinedisce]

Vīvere mīlitāre est — “To live is to fight.” (Seneca)

[Magister Iācōbus @latinedisce]

Live in such a way that, at your death, you deserve an epitaph like that of Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus (270 BC):

Fortis vir sapiēnsque, cuius fōrma virtūtī parissima fuit — “A brave and wise man, whose beauty was most equal to his virtue.”

[IMPERATOR @IMPERATORAUS]

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is the man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

– Homer (The Iliad)

[Magister Iācōbus @latinedisce]

Aequam · Servare · Mentem

[J. Monacena @demonpensant]

« Le chef-d’œuvre des Grecs fut l’Homme ; les premiers, ils comprirent qu’éducation signifie modelage du caractère humain selon un idéal déterminé. (…) D’autres nations ont créé des dieux, des rois, des esprits ; les Grecs seuls ont formé des hommes. »

Werner Jaeger, Paideia

[Grand Pas @Luscinus]

@PontNeuf06 Le dernier des Mohicans. Continue camarade. Je prends un livre chez toi dès que je viens.

[Magister Iācōbus @latinedisce]

Excelsior — “Ever Higher”

[Essener @Kaiserzeiten]

Alles Leben ist Kampf, weil es Feuer ist.

Oswald Spengler (1880 - 1936)

[Magister Iācōbus @latinedisce]

Lupae fīliī fīliaeque — “Sons and daughters of the she-wolf.”

[Magister Iācōbus @latinedisce]

Maiōrum cōnsuētūdinī dēditus — “Devoted to the tradition of the ancestors.” (Seneca)

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

The most attractive trait isn’t looks, wealth, or status. It’s energy. Walk into rooms with genuine enthusiasm, curiosity, and interest. You'll become a magnet for the highest quality people. Energy is contagious. Spread the kind you’d want to catch.

[The Movie Professor 🎬🎥📺 @FunMovieTVFan]

It's National BODHI Day

#PointBreak

[Interbellica @interbellica]

‘The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.’

– Napoleon