Andrea Gonar

“Pues el libertino, en el primer sentido del término, designa al liberto que no pone nada por encima de su libertad. Nunca reconoce ninguna autoridad susceptible de guiarle, ni en el terreno de la religión, ni en el de las costumbres. Vive siempre según los principios de una moral autónoma lo menos apoyada posible en la dominante de la época y de la civilización en la que se mueve.”

“For we are capable of doing only what we are inclined to do. And again, we truly incline only toward something that in turn inclines toward us, toward our essential being, by appealing to our essential being as the keeper who holds us in our essential being. What keeps us in our essential nature holds us only so long, however, as we for our part keep holding on to what holds us. And we keep holding on to it by not letting it out of our memory. Memory is the gathering of thought.”