Virtues of War - Steven Pressfield  ## Metadata - Author: **Steven Pressfield** - Full Title: Virtues of War - Category: #books ## Highlights - What drives the soldier is *cardia*, “heart,” and *dynamis*, “the will to fight.” Nothing else matters in war. Not weapons or tactics, philosophy or patriotism, not fear of the gods themselves. Only this love of glory, which is the seminal imperative of mortal blood, as ineradicable within man as in a wolf or a lion, and without which we are nothing. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jme7rxn5s2j52ak5h5y5xc33))