Nicolás Gómez Dávila was a man of wit and style. He spoke 16 languages, and his personal library numbered over 30,000 volumes, ranging from classical Greek, Latin to Sanskrit.
"In every battle the eyes are the first to be conquered..."
- Tacitus, Germania
"One must work in solitude as a man who opens a clearing in virgin forest, sustained by the unique hope that somewhere in its depths, others are working to the same end."
- Ernst Jünger
"I find that I must go handsomely, whatever it costs me, and the charge will be made up in the fruit it brings."
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Nicolás Gómez Dávila was a man of wit and style. He spoke 16 languages, and his personal library numbered over 30,000 volumes, ranging from classical Greek, Latin to Sanskrit.
and as my mother comented on him once: ... and from the most noble of families around Bogota
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