When a warrior fights not for himself, but for his brothers, when his most passionately sought goal is neither glory nor his own life’s preservation,… - Steven Pressfield

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When a warrior fights not for himself, but for his brothers, when his most passionately sought goal is neither glory nor his own life’s preservation, but to spend his substance for them, his comrades, not to abandon them, not to prove unworthy of them, then his heart truly has achieved contempt for death, and with that he transcends himself and his actions touch the sublime.