Carlos Perez

“Modern man defends nothing energetically except his right to debauchery.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“In a 50-50 life or death crisis, choose death.”
― Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

“Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but what is worse, as many masters as he has vices.”
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God

“beauty is an ultimate value—something that we pursue for its own sake, and for the pursuit of which no further reason need be given. Beauty should therefore be compared to truth and goodness, one member of a trio of ultimate values which justify our rational inclinations.”
― Roger Scruton, Beauty: A Very Short Introduction