Alex

“But Nature granted to gold and silver no function with which we cannot easily dispense. Human folly has made them precious because they are rare. In contrast, Nature, like a most indulgent mother, has placed her best gifts out in the open, like air, water and the earth itself; vain and unprofitable things she has hidden away in remote places.”
― Thomas More

“One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.”
― Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses

“Think of love as a state of grace not as a means to anything... but an end in itself.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“I saw with regret, (and all scientific men have shared this feeling) that whilst the number of accurate instruments was daily increasing, we were still ignorant”
― Alexander von Humboldt, Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1