Everyone needs great cultural icons, whether they’re interested in them or not. They are part of the fabric that gives an individual life some sort of meaning.
The knightly-aristocratic values rest upon a powerful physical development, a richness and even superabundance of health, together with what is necessary for maintaining life, on war, adventure, the chase, the dance, the tourney!
"Had I been at Martinique, I should also have been on the side of the English [...] I am for the whites, because I am white; I have no other reason, yet that is reason good enough." ~ Napoleon Bonaparte