FAINT ECHOES IN PLUTO’s CAVE

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the pupil of the i

we have at least 2 eyes

the public & private

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skull / school /skill

pluto’s cave (is also aTardis)

we are now living in a plutocracy (government by the wealthy)

apparently though it’s :

Time to tackle the UK’s plutonium mountain  

is that what Brexit was subconsciously about?

i don’t know but it’s an intriguing thought

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Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Wise men talk because they have something to say;

fools, because they have to say something.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil,

may not be the greatest good.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly,

while bad people will find a way around the laws.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous

without seeking to appear so.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most,

but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Courage is knowing what not to fear

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person

or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Democracy passes into despotism.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life,

and greater than every other earthly conflict.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

LIVE – LAUGH – LOVE

FAINT ECHOES IN PLUTO’s CAVE

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