In Libro Veritas

Rameau - L'égyptienne youtu.be/837kZoZdFp0?is=LKNG…

William Shakespeare ; Richard II

Phaedrus (Roman fabulist, 15-50 B.C.)

Francis Bacon, The New Organon

"I should like not to exchange any of my life for money." H.D. Thoreau

"All the great changes in the life of one man, or in the life of the whole of humanity, begin and are achieved in thought only." Leo Tolstoy

"From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at a time." Victor Hugo

H.D. Thoreau ; Journal, April 11, 1852

Gustave Flaubert to Louise Collet (September, 1852)

"He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life." H.D.. Thoreau

Voltaire on tastes

""I don’t know any delight to compare with that given me by some of the illustrious dead whose works I have read or seen. The three finest things in creation are the sea, Hamlet, and Mozart’s Don Giovanni." Gustave Flaubert