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What book will exhort me to live dangerously? “Build your houses on the slopes of Vesuvius” type of thing

Thinking about how St Joan of Arc apparently once stabbed a prostitute so hard that the sword broke. She would also shoo away any of her fellow soldiers’ female companions, and went to great pains to eradicate gambling among the men. I think that this type of moral certitude and sheer force of will has largely disappeared among the mankind of today. In this present age what can spur men into committing great feats of strength and virtue? Setting sail for foreign lands, erecting obelisks, inspiring the masses to act in pursuit of some lofty glory.