Hadrian Stone

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[Hadrian Stone @HadrianStoneMMF]

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Cowardice collects its price slowly.

Every time you let fear make decisions for you, the life you might have lived becomes a little more distant.

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Virtue is easy to imitate when no sacrifice is required.

The true measure of a man begins when doing what is right costs him something he desperately wants.

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Journaling forces you to confront yourself without an audience before you.

On paper, there is no reputation to protect and no one left to deceive but yourself.

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Every alliance is built upon mutual interest.

When interests change, allies can become rivals overnight. Never confuse cooperation with permanent loyalty.

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@unkonfined All on his sacred timeline

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Timidity has buried more men than failure ever will or could.

Fear convinces men to abandon ship even before the world has a chance to defeat them.

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@palassis Perfectly said, Joshua

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Every day lived is one day closer to death.

Do not fear this fact. Use it as a reminder to stop wasting your finite existence on things that do not matter.

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Disloyalty is preceded by contempt.

Once someone stops respecting you, loyalty rarely survives for long.

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Power does not corrupt every man.

Sometimes it only gives him permission to become what he was hiding.

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Morality usually survives only because it has not yet been sufficiently tested.

Give a man enough power, desperation, or temptation, and you may discover how conditional his virtues always were.

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Envy is admiration poisoned by resentment.

Often time, the envious don’t want what you have. They want you to lose it.

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@unkonfined Goated

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You are going to die. Act accordingly.

Your time is finite. Spend less of it pleasing others, holding grudges, and postponing the life you actually want to live.

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Death is the only certainty in life.

Treating your time as if it were unlimited is perhaps the greatest arrogance of man.

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Surround yourself with those who will sharpen and hone your thinking.

Stay away from those who will infect you with their self-inflicted miseries.

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@unkonfined Perfectly said

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@unkonfined Amen

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Guard your reputation.

Once others start telling your story for you, you’ve lost total control over it. Protect your reputation with the same vigilance you protect your health and finances.

Both compound over time. Both are expensive to rebuild once lost.