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What is the maxim you live by

>> No.10363427
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10363427

>>10363423

>> No.10363453

>>10363423
"What else can I do to keep me from suicide."

I've joined religion, pursue the achieving of a traditional family, rejected hedonism, and realized that the system of pursuing innovation will ultimately lead to human misery, yet to live well in it means to contribute to it, ultimately I've always felt an overwhelming emptiness and purposeless darkness, but my new life choices have never made me feel more alive than I've ever been.

>> No.10363509

Start with the Greeks

>> No.10363513

Sustine et abstine

>> No.10363527
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>> No.10363537

>>10363423
Life is war and I don't like war so I am a neet shutin.

>> No.10363674

>>10363513
>Sustine et abstine

sustine I understand, but what are you abstaining, or fearbearing from/to?

>> No.10363680

>>10363423
not too much, not too little

>> No.10363688

>>10363423
There's no valid reason to prefer life over death.

>> No.10363692

>>10363423
people who live by a maxim are usually edgy as fuck, extremely young/old or have a hard time understanding that you can't live by a single sentence, as life isn't as black and white as a hollywood noir movie

>> No.10363695

>>10363692
Nice maxim buddy

>> No.10363696

This is Water.

>> No.10363703

The constant pursuit of pleasure weathers the storm of form.

>> No.10363721
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10363721

Buy the ticket take the ride

>> No.10363725

There's no scraps in my scrapbook

>> No.10363733

I live by two maxims. The first is: don't sweat the little things.

>> No.10363737

Start with the Greeks

>> No.10363749

It doesn't matter that nothing matters.

>> No.10363766

"Read the sticky"

>> No.10363786

>>10363423
no spill blood.

>> No.10363788
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10363788

>>10363423
>Search for truth, Love beauty, Wish for good, Do what is best

>> No.10363792

>>10363674
Passions which can lead to vice

>> No.10363812

>>10363423
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why I poop on company time.

>> No.10363850
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10363850

>The unexamined life is not worth living.

>> No.10363852

>>10363423
Look out for numero uno

>> No.10363855

>>10363850
also, in the Platonic sense:
>Beauty is truth, truth beauty — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

>> No.10363875

>>10363423
Tits or GTFO

>> No.10363900

>>10363423
Never betray the way you always known it is

>> No.10363927

Live fast, die young.

>> No.10364121

>>10363513
guud shit m8
>>10363674
The lower to volitions of Socrates's "tripartite soul" model.

>> No.10364129

>>10363696
kek, I'm readin' sum dfw right now

>> No.10364130

>>10363423

“Failure is the natural state of human nature. To succeed is the rare thing. There is nothing wrong with being a failure. You can fail. Get used to it.”

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10364145

Don’t be like dad

>> No.10364152

>>10363423
Love God.

>> No.10364164

>>10363423
Wir streben mehr danach Schmerz zu vermeiden als Freud zu gewinnen. - Papa Freud

>> No.10364193

>>10364145

kek

>> No.10364195

>>10363423
Learn to live

>> No.10364197

>>10363423
Big beats are the best. Get high all the time.

>> No.10364205

This too shall pass

>> No.10364208

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

>> No.10364235

If it is wrong don't do it, if it is a lie don't speak it

>> No.10364246

>>10364197
Have you read the big beat manifesto recently?

>> No.10364304

>>10363423
"Try not to drink too much whiskey today"

>> No.10364328

The state of affairs is unbearable

>> No.10364344

>>10363423
That's one handsome face. I think Germanic face with Greco-Roman hair is the most aesthetic look.

>> No.10364352

>>10364145
Keked too

>> No.10364715

>>10363733
YOU ONLY WROTE ONE MAXIM.
WHAT IS THE SECOND MAXIM?
GIVE US THE SECOND MAXIM!

>> No.10364722

the only thing you HAVE to do in life is die

>> No.10364806
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>>10363423
Say just a simple ‘Yes, I will’ or ‘No, I won’t.’

Mathew 5:37

>> No.10364909

"grab her by the pussy"

>> No.10364997
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10364997

"He who would ignite a fire in others, must himself burn."
-Joe Vigil, probably

>>10363513
>>10363788
>>10363850
GOOD

>>10363733
>>10364715
The first was that he has two maxims.

>> No.10365069

>>10364997
NO. HE SAID
>THE FIRST IS:
AND THEN SAID THE FIRST MAXIM.
HE IS HIDING HIS MAXIMS
GIVE US THE MAXIMS.

>> No.10365089

>>10365069
Then the second maxim was the first. Either way, he gave two.

I think we could all learn from him.

>> No.10365108

>>10363423
Nothing is unendurable

>> No.10365282

>>10363423
en arxai hain ho logos

>> No.10365285

>>10363423
Don't stagnate and enjoy things while you can.

>> No.10365295

Deeds not words.

>> No.10365362

>>10363423
whur dah white wumen at?

>> No.10365683

>If the world is what we make of it, then let us make good.

>Some things happen by chance; some things happen because we made them happen
Help me put the second one in a better prose, /lit/

>> No.10365688

>>10365089
NO. THERE WAS ONLY ONE MAXIM.
SINCE THERE WILL NEVER BE A RESPONSE, I WILL PROVIDE THE SECOND MAXIM.

TO MAXIMIZE THE MAXIM, IS THE MAXIMAL MINIMUM. t. MAXIMIUS MAXIMUS.

>>10364806
THAT IS NOT IN THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT.

>> No.10365696

>>10365683
Some things are determined by chance, others by volition.

>> No.10365707

>>10363423
what a gaudy pretentious statue

>> No.10365731

>>10363423
wubba lubba dub dub~~

>> No.10366166

>>10363423
Get your hands out of your ass and do it yourself

>> No.10366168

get bent

>> No.10366172
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>>10363423
this one

>> No.10366173

>>10365707
Leave it to NatSoc sculptors to turn classicism into the capeshit of "classier" people.

>> No.10366196
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10366196

tfw no gf

>> No.10366199

>>10363725
>capos stare in confusion
>Phil leaves
>the fuck does that mean? We're going to war with Jersey?
>I think so

>> No.10366205

>>10363423
>Dr. Pavel, I'm CIA

>> No.10366216

>>10363721
My hero

Watch him as he goes

Insane, my hero

>> No.10366220

>>10363527
C
A
T
E
G
O
R
I M P E R I T A V E
C
A
L

>> No.10366225

sadboys reppin for life

>> No.10366228

>>10363423
Always tell the bees.

>> No.10366230

>>10363423
It’s not gay if the balls don’t touch

>> No.10366240

>>10365696
Thanks

>> No.10366244
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>>10365683

>> No.10366288

>>10363423
fick it

>> No.10366304 [DELETED] 
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10366304

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

>> No.10366305

>>10365696
I think it sounds better without the word things

>> No.10366313
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10366313

"If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires."

>> No.10366330

Never stop achieving

>> No.10366332

>>10363423
dont fuckin interact with people if you dont have to

>> No.10366336

What would Lenin do?

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>>10366305
Hey fuck you too bud.

>> No.10366345
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10366345

On the wall

>> No.10366347

>>10363423
me ne frego

>> No.10366350

>>10363423
Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that’s always been my motto.

>> No.10366361

Everything is a dominance hierachy.

>> No.10366366

>>10364715
The missing second maxim is a little thing. Reread the first one and think about it.

>> No.10366368

>>10363423
From each according to his ability, to himself according to his needs.

>> No.10366372

Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat

>>10366347
very good

>> No.10366377

>>10366305
Original guy here:
How does this sound? Some fortunes are determined by chance, other by volition.

>> No.10366385

I tried so hard

>> No.10366405
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>>10363423
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

>> No.10366420

>tfw no creed or cause to live and die by

>> No.10366429

>>10366368
Kek

>> No.10366459

Be as bad as the world will let you be.

Reasoning is if I can do 'degenerate' shit like fucking every weekend, cheating, getting fucked off my chops, hurting people then the universe must be evil for allowing me to do so. I'm not going to live a good life searching for truth while this inherently bad universe rewards loose women better. We don't live in a movie world where the good wins in the end. Blame God don't blame me.

>> No.10366473

>>10363423
Be cool, you fool.

>> No.10366492

>>10363423
420 blaze it everyday bitch

>> No.10366512

>>10366459
God will blame you.

>> No.10366515

live every day like you're just warming up

>> No.10366525

>>10363423
Live, Laugh, Love

>> No.10366554

>>10366459
post tits

>> No.10366558

>>10363453
You suck. Just be good and work for humanity, it's that easy. Your internal experience barely matter.

>> No.10366562

>>10366459
Edgy

>> No.10366563

We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children

>> No.10366564
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10366564

>Try for a while, but only until it becomes somewhat difficult, then stop

>> No.10366566

There are no maxims :^)

>> No.10366577

>>10366512
Why? He made me, allowed me to and forgave me.
The way we learn to live is through experience. If God hands me something good I will be good to it, if I'm good to something bad that makes me cowardly, unfair, chaotic. I see this as a test to see if we are truly fair.

>> No.10366628

>>10366377
Simplify it. Fortune through chance of volition. Either you get lucky and it comes to you, or you get off your ass and go to it.

My maxim: No honor among thieves.

>> No.10366665

>>10366459
>I do bad things
>I (self)
>do (will)
>admitting you are responsible for bad things
>blaming "the universe"
post hoc excuse for being a piece of shit

>> No.10366846

An fap a day keeps tfw no gf away.

>> No.10366949

>>10363423
The only maxim BY WHICH I LIVE is to avoid end of sentence propositions.

>> No.10366987

Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing. . . . A new Hedonism -- that is what our century wants. You might be its visible symbol.

>> No.10367040

>>10364715
>>10364997
>>10365688
The second maximum is actually don't sweat the big things

>> No.10367064

>>10366173
*strokes beard while admiring an abstract sculpture of a negro using a toilet*

>> No.10367072

To human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities--I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not--that one endures.

>> No.10367086

>>10363721
>>10366216
Pleb tier

>> No.10367151

life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards

>> No.10367178

>>10363423
I could've done better.

>> No.10367181

We are preaching our own funerals, as we go through this life. Don't forget that

>> No.10367188

>>10363423
I'm gay

>> No.10367193

a man's face is his autobiography a woman's face is her work of fiction

>> No.10367210
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>>10363423
dont be a fag, become a faggot

>> No.10367274

>>10366949
>being a pedant
>propositions

Faggot.

>> No.10367282

White is Right

>> No.10367335

>>10366350
Kek. Sorry bud, that sounds like an awful life

>> No.10367374

when I get home I'm going to eat a pizza, fap to dickgirls and then play dota all night

>> No.10367532

Everything is funny

>> No.10367649

>>10367374
gay

>> No.10367756

>>10367374
what a sad existence to partake in, but then again I was the same once

>> No.10367764

>"...when providence signals to me, I recognize it instantly!"
not exactly a maxim, but fuck it.
t. ethiopian

>> No.10367770

>>10367374
fantastic

>> No.10367777

>ctrl+f "for teh lulz"

nada.

bunch of faggots


also
>>>/r/motivationalposters/

>> No.10367782

>>10363680
>>10364130
>>10366564
>complacency implies stagnancy
>>10363721
>>10364208
>>10365285
hear hear!
>>10363875
>>10364909
>>10366230
>>10366846
this!
>>10363927
>>10367282
edgy af
>>10364145
>t. negro
>>10366361
or better yet "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must"
>>10366525
>>10366987
fuckouttahere

>> No.10369180

Existence exists.
Live for myself.
Happiness is earned through your own accomplishments.
Never live for the sake of another or ask others to live for myself.

>> No.10369186

wubba lubba dub dub

>> No.10369206

>>10363423
it's all meaningless, but that includes the idea of meaninglessness, so construct meaning as you see fit to.

>> No.10369217

There is no memory that time does not erase, no pain not ended by death.

>> No.10369224

>>10363423

We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.

>> No.10369233

>>10363423

You mean like a motto OP?

>> No.10369235

>>10363423
all is merely appearance, problems are never solved, know this and carry on.

>> No.10369242

>>10369233

What's a motto?

>> No.10369249

>>10369242

Nothin, what's a motto you?

>> No.10369251
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>>10369249

>> No.10369274

It's only awkward if you make it awkward.

>> No.10369348

fuck y’all

>> No.10369393

>>10364152
The only consistently true maxim

>> No.10369406

>>10364152
thank you

>> No.10369443
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>>10363423
stop and think, but don't think all the time, and always, always be kind

>> No.10369454

>>10363423
>live by no maxim

>> No.10369464

>>10363423
Tomorrow comes Today.

>> No.10369469

>>10363423
You reap what you sow.
>I really just like that one and live by it as much as I can. I feel as though my biggest mistakes have been made when I ignored it.
Also I like
"The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes."

>> No.10369478

>>10363423
Get better

>> No.10369695

>>10363423
ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt

>> No.10370263

>>10363423
As above, so below.

>> No.10370283

>>10366558
>look at this faggot having the nerve to be depressed
>You experiences don't matter but other people's do
no you suck.

>> No.10370321

>>10363423
Know yourself, know your world.

>> No.10370370

FUCK POOR PEOPLE
FUCK NON WHITES
FUCK PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIVE IN MY CORNER OF THE WORLD
FUCK THE WEAK
FUCK UGLY PEOPLE
AND FUCK WOMEN.

Love Family and build a great legacy.

>> No.10370384

Sors bona, nihil aliud

>> No.10370389

You either fuck or get fucked

>> No.10370395

Nigga I'm just tryna get and keep my Willy wet.

>> No.10370404

It is better that I suffer rather than anyone else.

>> No.10370454

If you just act like you know what you're doing, eventually people will start to believe you.

>> No.10370468

>>10363423
things are not what they seem

>> No.10371249

>>10363692
Im gonna live by this now

>> No.10371273

>>10367782
You use other’s to let us known what your maxim is. good anon

>> No.10371452

>>10366558
???????????????

>internal experience barely matter

alrighty you big lad

>> No.10371457

no excess

>> No.10371491

>>10367782
When the fuck are we gonna start perma-banning mass replying turbo niggers?

>> No.10371625
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>>10363423
All is contributory and condign to all. My evils are deserved.

>> No.10371631

>>10363423
Time is running short, shame ever mounting.

>> No.10371711

"We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is."

>> No.10371769

What doth life

>> No.10371794

>>10363423
The ends justify the memes

>> No.10372261
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>>10363423
Good for Good
Evil for Evil
People deserve punishments for their failings, and so do i

>> No.10372294

Always know where your towel is.

>> No.10372297
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>>10364197
>>10364246

>> No.10372451

>>10363423
>Where's your fuckin' balls?
'Balls' - of course - being slang for virtue, the Latin etymon of which meant, as I'm sure you all know, manly strength.

>>10363725.
>Make it happen.

>> No.10373014
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>>10363423

>> No.10373562

"keep trying harder to be a good person" to be honest

>> No.10374640

>>10363423
>maxims are gay

>> No.10374660

>>10363423
dats how it ees on dis bitch of an erf

>> No.10374695

>>10363423
Nothing can happen until you swing the bat.

>> No.10374701

Don't fall in love

>> No.10374708

However, for the man who studies to gain insight, books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he climbs to the summit of knowledge. As soon as a rung has raised him up one step, he leaves it behind. On the other hand, the many who study in order to fill their memory do not use the rungs of the ladder for climbing, but take them off and load themselves with them to take away, rejoicing at the increasing weight of the burden. They remain below forever, because they bear what should have bourne them.

Arthur Shopenhauer

>> No.10374713

Be honest with yourself about just how hard you're really working.

>> No.10374728

"Who cares what you look at while you masturbate? You know how to separate fantasy from reality and it's not like you're hurting anybody."

>> No.10374730

Ego is suffering

>> No.10374732

Sucking cock ironically is not gay

>> No.10374734

>>10363423
die fast, live young

>> No.10374767
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>>10363423
I am the most retarded out of all of you.

>> No.10375055
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10375055

"Comparison is the thief of joy."

Its not from a Greek. And, it is probably tattooed on thousands of basic bitch's forearms. But I like it.

>> No.10375076
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10375076

>>10363423
FUCK HOS

GET MONEY

>> No.10375099
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>>10366459
>Blame God don't blame me.
>I can do 'degenerate' shit

>> No.10375101

At least it can't get any worst

>> No.10375358

>>10375101
For me it is: it always could be worse

>> No.10375452
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"I take upon myself the deeds of all beings, even of those in the hells, in other worlds, in the realms of punishment. I take their suffering upon me, I bear it, I do not draw back from it, I do not tremble at it. I have no fear of it, I do not lose heart. I must bear the burden of all beings, for I have vowed to save all things living, to bring them safe through the forest of birth, age, disease, death and rebirth. I think not of my own salvation, but strive to bestow on all beings the royalty of supreme wisdom. So I take upon myself all the sorrows of all beings. I resolve to bear every torment in every purgatory of the universe. For it is better that I alone suffer than the multitude of living beings. I give myself in exchange. I redeem the universe from the forest of purgatory, from the womb of flesh, from the realm of death. I agree to suffer as a ransom for all beings, for the sake of all beings. Truly I will not abandon them. For I have resolved to gain supreme wisdom for the sake of all that lives, to save the world."

>> No.10375463

When I was 19 I wrote the following as a maxim in our yearbook: "Take all you can get and do not return anything"

I want to go back in time and punch myself.

>> No.10375489
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10375489

Moderation in everything, including moderation.

>> No.10375498

don't let the door hit you where the good lord split you

>> No.10375563

>>10363423
>Try not to be too big of a dick