Christopher Æsc Adams

“From one thing, know ten thousand things.”
― Miyamoto Musashi

“It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge.
... War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone.
War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him.
The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
That is the way it was and will be.
That way and not some other way...
War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god...
Men of god and men of war have strange affinities.”
― Cormac McCarthy

“Here is what you do, friends. Forget country. Forget king. Forget wife and children and freedom. Forget every concept, however noble, that you imagine you fight for here today. Act for this alone: for the man who stands at your shoulder. He is everything, and everything is contained within him. That is all I know. That is all I can tell you.

--Dienekes at Thermopylae”
― Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire