Win or Endure: The Code of a Man
For battle, pray to God that He grants me patience and mercy, because in war, courage and rage for combat are things we never lack.
For battle, pray to God that He grants me patience and mercy, because in war, courage and rage for combat are things we never lack.
Follow the plan, not your mood.
The real world will show you no mercy. It will crush your expectations without hesitation and bury your dreams beneath the rubble of harsh reality. In the face of this, the choice is yours alone: perish at the bottom of the pit as a defeated man—or turn the abyss into a trench of resistance.
The greatest failure doesn’t come from the outside. It grows from within, nourished by excuses. No one is defeated by the world before first being defeated by themselves.
Just like the ancient Italians, treat those who show you courtesy and respect ten times better, and those who treat you with arrogance, intimidation, or offense a hundred times worse. People treat us only in the way we allow ourselves to be treated. In business, respect is worth more than any persuasion. Cunning may bring profit, but courtesy builds lasting bonds. Profit without honor is not truly an advantage.
In this life, if you are innocent, naive, and excessively peaceful, the world will swallow you whole. The one who seeks to be good all the time will not be rewarded but ruthlessly punished.
The worst battle I ever fought was between what I knew and what I felt.
Unchecked rage destroys in seconds what patience builds over a lifetime. He who governs himself will never be a slave to circumstances.