210617 What I learned in my studies this morning

Playing with the words, 

Making them dance to my thoughts. 

Poetry begins.... 

Daily Stoic: 

Pursuing fortune is fatuous.  I must chase virtue instead.  Living a virtuous life, either fortune will come to me or not, but either way, I will become a better person and live a worthier life.

 

Today's Meditation:

War is a racket.  It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes. ~  Smedley D. Butler, USMC Major General (ret.) and two-time Medal of Honor recipient

Daily Shakespeare:

Stoic Quotes on Death, from The Practicing Stoic by  Ward Farnsworth: