Modern society surpasses past societies in only two respects: vulgarity and technology.
La sociedad moderna no aventaja las sociedades pretéritas sino en dos cosas: la vulgaridad y la técnica.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913-1994), Sucesivos Escolios a un Texto Implicito (Bogotá: Villegas Editores, 2005), p. 75 (my translation):