Rita Rocha

“Men assumed the right to reverse the usual values in the application of words to actions. Reckless audacity came to be thought as comradely courage, while for-sighted hesitation became well-disguised cowardice; moderation was a front for unmanliness; and to understand everything was to accomplish nothing.”
― Thucydides, Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War Books VI and VII: A Companion to the Penguin Translation

“Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes”
― Bertolt Brecht, Galileo

“Piety in regard to the dead: to do everything for what does not exist.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

“We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.”
― Simone Weil