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“The people with whom we speak every day and our favorite authors cannot belong to the same zoological species.”


“Wisdom, in this century, consists above all in knowing how to put up with vulgarity without becoming upset.”


“Posterity is not going to understand what an achievement mere good sense is in this insane century.”


“We can resist the trivialization that is invading the world by resurrecting God as our rearguard.”


“To think like our contemporaries is the prescription for prosperity and for stupidity.”


“Puritanism is the attitude that befits the decent man in the world today.”


“Let us not give stupid opinions the pleasure of scandalizing us.”


“To be right is just one more reason not to achieve any success.”


“Intellectual vulgarity depresses me more than bad news.”


“The modern world will not be punished.
It is the punishment.”

Gómez Dávila


“Only the defeated come to possess sound ideas about the nature of things.” (Gómez Dávila)

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“For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.” — Ecclesiastes 1:18

“Optimists write badly.” — Paul Valéry

“There is only one misery … not to be saints.” — Léon Bloy

“We should not be frightened: what we admire does not die.
Nor be delighted: neither does what we detest.” — Gómez Dávila

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