Virtues

Manly Virtues to live your life by:

• Courage
• Patience
• Selflessness
• Loyalty
• Fidelity
• Self-command
• Respect for Elders
• Love of our comrades (and of the enemy)
• Perseverance
• Cheerfulness in adversity
• A sense of humour, no matter how terse or dark

How to Conduct Yourself

In a world where, unless you live alone, on a deserted island, societal structures, good or bad, rule the roost, we must learn how to construct ourselves in an ever evolving landscape.

You must conduct yourself so that all men seek to be your friend and all fear to be your enemy.

In this way will you go through life happier and less prone to doubt, fear and anxiety.

There are many approaches to this and certainly there is no one size fits all, but conduct yourself in this way you must, if you are to become a man of worth.

Excuses - Everyone's Got One

Everyone's got excuses, only the weak use them!

Acta Non Verba

Acta Non Verba - Deeds not Words! This is something we should carry with us throughout life. Some people talk it and talk it, and the dream never materialises. 

Other people talk of all the great and heroic things they've done, but have nothing tangible to support their words.

Be like the Spartans, only speaking when necessary, allowing their actions and deeds to do the talking for them. 

Show, don't tell and greatness awaits.

Honour - a prized possession



Honour is man's most prized possession - without it, life is not worth living. Make sure you don't lose it.

Choose Deeds Over Appearance

How much time do we as people spend on our outward appearances? Shaves, haircuts, fashion, Make-up.

 

How much time, care and attention do we give daily to what we do for others?

 

Your deeds are more important than your looks.

 





The Truly Rich Man

The man who adapts himself to his slender means and makes himself wealthy on a slender sum, is the truly rich man.

 

Rich is a very subjective term. Status anxiety causes us to want more and more, while getting less and less true satisfaction.

 

If we take a Spartan approach to life, clothing for warmth not brands, food for sustenance, not hedonism, a home for shelter over extravagance, then we can surely be rich no matter what our income.