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The Scrambler

Got a new Ducati!!!

Plato - Symposium

“...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (because he's in touch with no images), but to true virtue [arete] (because he is in touch with true Beauty). The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.” 

Victor Hugo - The last day of a condemned man

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

Also included 'Claude Geuex' by Victor Hugo. A short storey about the imprisonment and execution  of a worthy man.

Superbly written and poignant 

Immanuel Kant - What is Enlightenment?

Enlightenment is the emergence of man from his self-imposed infancy. Infancy is the inability to use one's reason without the guidance of another. It is self-imposed, when it depends on a deficiency, not of reason, but of the resolve and courage to use it without external guidance. Thus the watchword of the Enlightenment is Sapere Aude! Have the courage to use one's own reason.

Dare to be wise

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We went to the Norwich Tattoo expo yesterday - there were some superb examples of art!

Plus of course this is Scrambler week for meet

Seneca - On the Shortness of Life, plus, De Consolatione ad Helviam Matrem

The intention, that only the most worthless of our possessions should come into the power of another. Whatever is best for a human being lies outside human control: it can be neither given nor taken away.the world you see, nature's greatest and most glorious creation, and the human mind which gazes and wonders at it, and is the most splendid part of it, these are our own everlasting possessions and will remain with us as long as we ourselves remain.

Socrates went to prison with the same expression he wore when he once snubbed the 'thirty tyrants' - and his presence robbed even prison of disgrace -, for where Socrates was, could not seem a prison

People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.

Pat Barker - Regeneration

“Sometimes, in the trenches, you get the sense of something, ancient. One trench we held, it had skulls in the side, embedded, like mushrooms. It was actually easier to believe they were men from Marlborough's army, than to think they'd been alive a year ago. It was as if all the other wars had distilled themselves into this war, and that made it something you almost can't challenge. It's like a very deep voice, saying; 'Run along, little man, be glad you've survived”