Remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

“There are no moral phenomena, but merely moral interpretations of phenomena.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §108 (edited).

Dean Cornwell

On the journey through seven seas

Der Krieg (War) by Franz von Stuck (1894)

“Our vanity is the hardest to wound when our pride has just been wounded.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §111.

Firenze, Loggia dei Lanzi.

“There is an innocence in admiration.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §118 (excerpt).

Chance governs all.

Grant Wood, American gothic