Courage means, in the last moment of life, to still show allegiance to the thought for which one stood and fell.
--Ernst Junger
Our duty is to hold on to the lost position, without hope, without rescue, like that Roman soldier whose bones were found in front of a door in Pompeii, who, during the eruption of Vesuvius, died at his post because they forgot to relieve him. That is greatness. That is what it means to be a thoroughbred. The honorable end is the one thing that can not be taken from a man."
Oswald Spengler
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