Alejandro/Overview

"If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism."

"I choose my friends for their good conversations, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. One cannot be too careful in the choice of enemies."

"No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly."

Fear and hope have a relationship akin to fire and air. Without any hope, fear flickers out. With too much hope, it blows out. But with just enough, just a tiny breeze, it grows and grows...