Saturday, September 01, 2007

Villalonga and his "advice for life"



















A general advice for life publicised by Jose Luís de Villalonga, who passed away yesterday:

"Streghten your vices, be prideful and administer and exhault your defects. It is the key to success. ¿Isn't it true that nobody has never told you this? This is becuase the wish of everybody else is to weaken whoever does something. Yet, you will be told to "be a good person", so that they can live out of your goodness. To be modest, to avoid you overshadowing them. To cultivate your virtues, fearing you will cultivate your vices. For all this, be prideful and, obove all, listen carefullty what an old man says: spread hatred. Hatred, provides the person hated with life".

José Luis de Villalonga (1920-2007).
"Cartas de París a mis paisanos los iberos, 1998"