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Tao Stoic 80

"Master, whatsit, in order to become world-famous?"

"It is in a pair of opposites. One is for really great people to let it show, like Bach, Epictetus, Vel'zquez, Cicero, Wells, Newton, Aristotle, Spencer, Wyndham etc. , de happy results of genius, long study, hard work. The opposite is when a worm, a popbastard, that is not distinguishable from any other worm, forcefully induces ideas in the others that he is a top-ape. He'll soon be famous among the other empty shells of society that will pay him well for it. As you see, the one is real greatness, only to be judged and understood by others who also strive towards goodness, the other is nothingness, to be judged by those who are not even acquainted with nothingness, let alone greatness. These latter are the people who do not know what to do with their lives, nor why they should live at all. The lower foreheads that are a millionfold more of a tax on Nature than the sane, yet, they, with their screaming tyres, their bleating radios at full blast, they will kill us all, everything alive on Earth, including you and me."


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