PhoebeAnubian

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”

― Marcus Aurelius

“Beauty is no accident. The beauty of a race or a family, their grace and graciousness in all gestures, is won by work: like genius, it is the end result of the accumulated work of generations. One must have made great sacrifices to good taste, one must have done much and omitted much, for its sake — seventeenth-century France is admirable in both respects — and good taste must have furnished a principle for selecting company, place, dress, sexual satisfaction; one must have preferred beauty to advantage, habit, opinion, and inertia. Supreme rule of conduct: before oneself too, one must not ‘let oneself go’.” — Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer