Cling to your soul with love, fear, contempt, and hate, but and don’t let her out of your sight. She is a hellish-divine treasure to be kept behind walls of iron and in the deepest vault. She always wants to get out and scatter glittering beauty. Beware, because you have already been betrayed! You’ll never find a more disloyal, more cunning and heinous woman, never a rougher and more infamous man than your soul—you will never see anyone more beautiful, nobler, and more complete than your soul. Shield men from her, and her from men.
(Sevgi, korku, hor görme ve nefretle ruhuna sıkı sıkı sarıl, ama onu gözünün önünden ayırma. O, demir duvarların ardında ve en derin kasada saklanması gereken cehennemsel-ilahi bir hazinedir. O her zaman dışarı çıkıp ışıltılı güzelliğini etrafa saçmak ister. Dikkat et, çünkü çoktan ihanete uğradın! Ruhundan daha sadakatsiz, daha kurnaz ve iğrenç bir kadın, daha kaba ve daha kötü şöhretli bir erkek asla bulamayacaksın; ruhundan daha güzel, daha asil ve daha eksiksiz birini de asla göremeyeceksin. İnsanları ondan, onu da insanlardan koru.)
To truly cherish the things that are important to you,
you must first discard those that have outlived their
purpose. To get rid of what you no longer need is neither
wasteful nor shameful. Can you truthfully say that you
treasure something buried so deeply in a closet or drawer
that you have forgotten its existence? If things had feelings,
they would certainly not be happy. Free them from the prison
to which you have relegated them. Help them leave that
deserted isle to which you have exiled them. Let them go,
with gratitude. Not only you, but your things as well, will
feel clear and refreshed when you are done tidying.
"Mutluluğu kendinizde bulmak zordur ve başka yerde bulmak da mümkün değildir."
-Agnes Repplier, The Treasure Chest
Sizin xoşbəxtliyinizdir ki, cavansınız. Bu, həyatda ən yaxşı, ən qiymətli nemətdir.
Atahuallpa attempted to ransom himself by paying the Spaniards an enormous treasure of precious objects, which the Spaniards melted down to more than eleven tons in gold and thirteen tons in silver. Atahuallpa, despite Spanish promises, was not released and ruled the country from his captivity for half a year before he was finally garroted by his captors in July 1533
In 1917 Picardy, invaded once more, had been occupied for three years by the German army. Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, commander of the Sixth Army, urged General Ludendorff, Chief of General Staff, to ensure that the castle of Coucy be spared as a unique architectural treasure of no current military value.
Ludendorff did not like appeals to culture. Coucy having been unwisely called to his attention, he decided to make it an example of superior values. Rammed with 28 tons of explosives at his orders, the colossus raised by Enguerrand III in the age of the greatest builders since Greece and Rome was dynamited to the ground.
