To the many, to the majority, or in any case, to all those whom the world will not one day strain to remember, I would like to offer something which aspires to be entirely better. You who have clear minds, discover the teaching that hides beneath the veil of these strange verses, and you who aspire to live inimitably, live without struggle, and don’t miss out on the present, experience and observe the result.
If your greatest undertaking is to be liberated from yourself, devote yourself to art, to eros, to travel, provided that in what you do there is that which you have never attained before. Devote yourself to what is worthy of a person of taste, such as you are, and choose the extraordinary as though it were an obligation.
Let the beauty of the sunset inspire you to bravely leave everything else behind.
In the end, you will be moved only by the “Love that moves the sun and all the other stars,” as Dante says, and you will be driven by pure necessity, which is covered by the mask of chance, which itself is entirely determined. Most of all, you will be happy with little, provided that it comes as quickly as possible. When one says that “One cannot believe in the impossible,” as they say to Alice in Wonderland, you will dare to say that he is out of practice. When one is young of heart, one exercises half an hour a day: Why, sometimes he believes as many as six impossible things before breakfast!
Go and seek, not to find, but to be found. But I warn you say the oracle, whoever you are, you who plumb the jealous secrets of nature: if you do not succeed in finding within yourself what you seek, you will not find it elsewhere either.
If you neglect the marvels of your own home, how can you expect to find other marvels? In yourself there is a godly bounty. Know thyself, and you will know the world of the gods
Life is a banquet, where tomorrow is but a shadow.
And finally, know that:
“Vocatus Atque Non Vocatus Deus Aderit”
Vincent Montecristo
