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"Sometimes, only one person is
missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."
(Alphonse de Lamartine
1790-1869)
Paco used to tell me that there
must be some other Planet, better than this one, where
he intends to go one day. Unfortunately, that day came
before we expected. I hope he has found a peace on his
Planet.
Below you may find homages to Francisco (Paco) Torrent-Guasp, written by
his old and true friends,
Prof. Sir Donald N. Ross (London, UK) and Prof. Juan Cosín Aguilar (Valencia, ESP):
I dedicate these pearls of wisdom
to my Friend and Teacher:
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"Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one
day with a great teacher".
Japanese (or Chinese) proverb
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“Great spirits have always
encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre
mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses
to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses
instead to express his opinions courageously and
honestly.”
Albert Einstein
(1879-1955)
Quoted in New York Times, March
13, 1940.
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"All mankinde is of one Author, and is one volume;
when one Man dies, one Chapter is not torne out of the
booke, but translated into a better language; and every
Chapter must be so translated; God emploies several
translators; some peeces are translated by age, some by
sicknesse, some by warre, some by justice; but Gods hand
is in every translation; and his hand shall binde up all
our scattered leaves againe, for that Librarie where
every booke shall lie open to one another.
No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is
a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod
bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well
as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy
friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes
me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore
never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for
thee."
John Donne (1572-1631)
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
Meditation XVII: Nunc lento sonitu dicunt, Morieris
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