a few of Don Colacho’s aphorisms

"Let us not give stupid opinions the pleasure of scandalizing us."


"Where there are no vestiges of old Christian charity, even the purest courtesy is somewhat cold, hypocritical, hard."


"It is customary to proclaim rights in order to be able to violate duties."


"The writer who does not insist on convincing us wastes less of our time, and sometimes even convinces us."


"The relativity of taste is an excuse adopted by ages that have bad taste."


"Modern man has no interior life: hardly even internal conflicts."


"When he is stripped of the Christian tunic and the classical toga, there is nothing left of the European but a pale-skinned barbarian."

more from Don Colacho

"The feminists are ridiculous; the anti-feminists are vulgar." ~Nicolás Gómez Dávila

from Don Colacho

"There is no idiocy which modern man is not prepared to believe once he stops believing in Jesus Christ." ~Nicolás Gómez Dávila

today's quote

"The idea of the free development of personality seems excellent, as long as one does not meet someone whose personality has developed freely." ~Nicolás Gómez Dávila