The people with master virtues develop their morality in order to thrive and feel powerful, it's to succeed, where as those who slave virtues only wish to survive and feel content, it is to show sympathy for suffering, trouble or difficulty which is all about some utility for society rather than looking inwardly and improving oneself there or allowing one to struggle to triumph on ones own strengths, a triumph will improve ones strength.
Courage - is to be a victor over fear; ones purpose must be the cause of action and not of inaction; be directed to the ends without shrinking away. Courage to stand up when necessary. Courage to assert yourself and be in control of yourself as much you can in your circumstances. That is true courage.
Strength - is physical, mental, and emotional. Physical strength is very important to the to us. What is the point of chasing your passion if your body is unable to do so? What if your physical lack of strength causes you to be unable to enforce your will and break your chains?
Repeated practice though, that is what makes our strength reality. Mental strength should be equally exercised. We should be constantly increasing our mental tolerance against external and internal forces. Take a cold shower and overcome your bodies repulsion to discomfort. Meditate longer than you feel comfortable. Do lots of exercises that challenges yourself, that which strengthens the mind, when were as under attack then defend, finding the good in what we do, are mainly struggle, duty, devotion, convictions, self-control, self-respect, purpose, ambition, power, subtlety, patience, secrecy, presentness, cunning and subterfuge, using those passions do we then gain strength, all to prevent us from being tired as quickly as a normal person does.
Emotional strength is the final of these. You must build an emotional fort and decide what you will allow to control you. Are you angry? Channel that anger correctly. Are you sad? Channel it. Decide what will affect you and why. Don't allow emotions to control you. Break your bondage.
The virtues of self-control and fearlessness should be added too. The virtue of self-control is preventing the need to be dependent on someone else by financial and political freedom from the system. Victories are won by active and dedicated minorities, a bit of involvement in some movement or group can go a long way to achieving the aforementioned. Self-control more calculatingly is to disassociate with anything which is decadent or which gives your life the appearance of decadence.
Temperance - this is pure will power to self regulate. Patience, self-control, and diet are just a couple examples where Temperance is shown. Temperance can be described as balancing the dichotomies. Patience is important, but too much patience is weakness. Diet is important, but starving yourself is ridiculous. Proper Temperance can balance these extremes and lead to cohesion throughout our lives. And then keeping it up despite impulses, adversities and mood - irrational desires that keep us on a path of with junk food and junk television, laziness and procrastination, that we express as excessive comfort, addictions, wallowing in despair or self-doubt and overindulgence.
Indulgence with restraint - This is the ability to command your impulses, feelings and mood through self-control acts or habits, let yourself indulge in something that gives you pleasure or easier reward always in the form of greater self-control and more persistence rather than be reduced to addiction, solitude, indolence or moral hazard that comes with overindulgence in whatever comes your way as a hedonist or amoral person would. This is the secretive belief in owning oneself, well enough to know that ones pleasures are a essential element of ones life and this means we must be willing to be allowed to find what produce within you that spark of ever greater life ownership, strength and inner power that comes with this mindset of indulgence with restraint.
I would also add fearlessness as a virtue. The ability to take alot of punishment for being virtuous, this level of dedication is a sign of mastery and to the uninitiated can be of great use to upcoming battles and hardships. Suffering and sacrifice are necessary, we shouldn't shun it, this is hardening us.
Deferred gratification has been suggested by some as an virtue. Delayed gratification is resisting arm's length gratification and delaying it to the future for an even higher reward and gratification. It's when a person declines an immediate reward in the present in exchange for a greater reward in the future. It's a classic situation when a person fights with him or herself in order to get ahead. This could be a key component of past successes. It’s the call to sacrifice a little satisfaction today to greatly increase the quality of life tomorrow, an timeless principle.
Nationalism - This is explained as "the ability to meet the cultural needs and priorities and values of the people, both in terms of respect, power and honor. There is also the fundamental motto of "United we are Stronger" and "Enhance well-being for the greatest number of people".
Fatherland - This is what lives inside of each of us. We presume that your tradition, culture, heritage and nation are worth preserving. Everything is founded in and rests in the fatherland. Our strength and our greatness, but also our need and our misery.
Hardness - The ability to win victory goes to those who show the most resilience, unshakeable will in the face of adversity, risk or circumstance. Victory basically means to overcome circumstance by your will. Victory is ascertaining what it takes to succeed, be willing to do it and to take the slings and arrows in order to manifest the reality you have envisioned. We all have faith in our cause, that gives us strength which manifests as hardness at times, learn to be harder to gain the victory.
Honor - is a standard that we must hold a man to in society. A honorable person is they who are not one who is looked down on by those around him. Honor is the esteem one can have between like-minded people, and the character that best represents ones self amongst the like-minded people. They will achieve a level in the eyes of those around him to be respected. Being dishonorable is letting yourself down when you do not meet a standard you have set for yourself too. Honor is the protection of the group and honor is when we seek out the uncomfortable for repute, reputation is gotten from doing uncomfortable things. We seek out the difficult (discomfort) to further our own cause. Seek out repute in your decisions and therefore have greater respect. Personal honor is bridging the gap between what we promise and our deed, staying true between covenant, pact or promise and deed is a kind of personal honor that we surely need in this epoch of coasting by and allowing others to man the helm or guard the gates. Rather we want deed to reflect what I say I will fulfill, that's a true self suggestion that can be embodied day to day and is a part of being worthy of respect.
Duty - is the evaluation of the worth that the self is of to us, through adherence to the six short adages; "don't leave anyone behind", "the duty to accommodate so that the individuals don't experience undue hardship due to their beliefs", "make the world more suited for all", "do your duty, by doing what is expected of you because of what was made available to you", "respect people's autonomy" and "follow the authority for aslong its animating will is the spirit of the ideology that you deeply believe in" are the words we live by. Anyone who has pursued a path of power or other such paths will have found being highly motivated by challenge and duty. Duty in its most enticing is the duty of being called to the spirit of the ideology that animates you that consigns you towards the authority. Duty summarised is the belief or obligation one owes to carry out orders of towards and above the display of progress, discipline, strategy and progress. To bring the most out of our chosen path in life is worthy of admiration and calls for, atleast respectfully, reputably and financially, a duty to obey orders from the authority that stands for propelling forward progress, discipline and strategy. This is really not of morals, but of people being penetrated by a secret worship and reverence for truth, honor and reputation. It is also a this alludes to the entirety of ones history that lies in ones personality and the visible social relations that one maintains by ones preference to obey their sense of obligation.
"It's not the daily increase, but the daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential." -Bruce Lee.
Determination - is what compels you to continue on the struggle for your existence, struggle for your life and whatever else you deem to be part of your perspective, like gaining a prominent or important position, is essential component of any belief system. Perserverence is basically willpower. When put under pressure through consistent effort move past the ego depletion stage where fatigue starts to set in while doing something that requires your concentration, exertion in this way will leave you with more willpower as in your ego tank, which when improved in this manner it will be there to help empower you, to be empowered enough to make your goals or dreams come to life. Any difficulty and challenge that you meet is really just there to magnify your inner power, that is it grants you self-control.
Perseverance - is your ability to remain persistent in actualizing your emotion-driven or instinct-driven goals, perseverance means being able to fight against the instinct to seek out the road of least resistance or comfort. Perseverance is undergoing a transformative life event that will make you bare whatever circumstances you can and fight hard, within reason, against the self-righteousness, pride and ego of ones enemies. Because you know you are right, that is what gives you a aura of courage to face whomever you must, knowing this you will do what you can, preferably do what is right by your clique, irregardless of hardship and struggle to get to your desired end goal. What we observe that the world is organizing itself, the power of self-organisation, contributes to the resurgence of living according to natural law but willing our reality is even better. We seek order because we seek changing the status quo to adhere to our worldview.
Freedom - Our freedom cannot be sold for security/peace, as you would be forfeiting all you've done. Freedom is the differentiation of a individual from others, accepting our inherent traits and differences. The second component is indifference to all difficulty, hardship, trial, and tribulations. So we can summarize it as individualism, and to have a certain indifference to difficulty, hardship, trials and tribulations, responsibility and strength that often times is grounded in a sense of being, of a being that means "to stay true to oneself". Success over short-term gain, success follows the good, and failure is what follows the bad.
Family - this is what is sacred to each of us and so is our cause. Family is where the ability of passing on skills and paths onto our children, to help guide or help them to become moral, empowered, spiritual and have self autonomy.
Power - I will choose the path of power. The beginning and ends I seek, the inner satisfaction that you receive should be commensurate to the level you compel others to follow your dictates, desires and agenda, using your plans, protocols and values you can gain over others positions of power in the arena of your choosing. Power comes in many forms but the most powerful is military, banking, politics, law, media and business. Being compelling means knowing your arena or field well, not compromising on your plans, protocols or values in practice if you want them resolved sooner than later.
Integrity - Its about holding to your positions or principles of "doing the right actions", never go for instant gratification but pursue the harder path of self-knowledge. Avoiding hypocrisy, living in accordance to your ideals.
Wisdom - This is the refinement consciousness and informs all other virtues, that is only gained through the love of wisdom, wisdom is the ability of knowing and acting with knowledge, experience, understanding, insight and common sense. Power is not really knowledge, loads of knowledge that is not put to use (law of use), will really keep you from taking concerted actions to use the flame of ones lantern rather than constantly keep you from it or analysing it in merely intellectual ways. Actions stilted by excessive knowledge is a kind of indolence, knowing and acting with knowledge, experience, understanding, the insight gained through contemplation, intuition, deduction, discernment, perception and seeing patterns in a scenario, and common sense is what will give you enormous power over others and even ones own body and mind. A primary and effective way of gaining wisdom is gained through the application of knowledge which leads to experience, experience is what leads to wisdom (knowing and acting with experience). Without experience we are left without the primary and effective way to discern whether the knowledge we've accumulated is of any benefit or if it suits us, experience will tell us whether some pieces of knowledge is either going to help or hinder us in our lives or in our daily discipline. Knowing what to do in a situation and applying it to produce the desired outcome is a completely different scenario. We are not a reckless mob, but a passionate, reasonable, realistic and effective individual. Wisdom is being able to tell the difference between recklessness and the rest.
Diligence - Some may say that it is the most essential virtue for success in any field – career, art, sports or business. Its about making a decision to further your purposes or goals, and working on it in the face of adversity, risk or displeasure.
Competence/Capable - Competencies embody certain virtues like the ability to pick the goals that are right, sure ethics or a "can do" attitude, but its most importantly right goals and not sacrificing too much resources in carrying it out.
Ambitious - It is striving for some kind of achievement or distinction, first, it requires us to have the desire for achievement, and, second, its the willingness to work towards achievement or distinction even in the face of adversity or failure.
Trustworthy - This means being worthy of ones title, so that you give out what is necessary for those to follow you. Enticements, rewards and status is what the people clamor for, they want gradual rewards to be given out just as high status people want a status as close to their aptitude and skill as possible, he or she whom grants themselves the worthiness of love, admiration, respect and stability through leadership may likely get it.
Open-minded - This may include receptivity, receiving or the feminine virtue of a higher nobler class. That basically means that you do not shut yourself off from many avenues of realization, experience, fulfillment, wisdom and knowledge, all this and more is the basic belief that we what know is only scratching the surface, there is always more to learn and thus should we hold to ourselves Seneca's growth mindset, every situation is like a test of our virtue and our virtue for a want or eagerness for of advanced learning.
Will - Do what you wish to accomplish and finish it, do more then you think you can: One of the greatest skills of people with high honor and integrity is learning to follow their will and when that will touches passion gain alot of strength. Your will is what you wish to achieve and what you wish to become. Let that purpose deep inside you grant you that necessity which greatly enhances your passion to do what you want accomplish with speed and strength, purpose being that driving force of a past which justifies the present struggle or cause, that what will help propel what we wish to achieve in the future for long-term benefit or cause, and the thing that determines your skill and motivation in the present to accomplish things or continue the cause. Which drive you and with that increased drive will allow you to put even greater effort and purpose into what you do, which grants you ever greater strength.
The first step to freedom is introspection, what do we want, who are we to become, what do I believe in, then how do I get there where I want to be i.e. the seed planting phase. Next get rid of the unessential, remove the things that stand in your way, prune or cut away possessions, harmful habits, addictions that make you dependent on some other force instead have ones that empower you. Priorities need adjusting till you are left with makes you grow to meet the necessary components of achieving what you set out to do. Strength is in your passion, passion is in our proficiency, proficiency is in the daily toils, expertise carried on by our intensity to meet tasks that arise and obliterate obstacles, living for the energetic realization of our life blood - our true purpose & perhaps our true social calling.
