“It is very strange!  This head of mine hits upon more good ideas in an hour than a cool fellow like that has in a year, and yet I am beaten by him—­and if I am honest I can not but confess that it was not his luck alone, but his shrewdness that gained the victory.  He may be off as soon as he likes with his proud Hera—­I can find a dozen Aphrodites in Alexandria in her place!

“I resemble Hellas and he Rome, such as they are at present.  We flutter in the sunshine, and seize on all that satisfies our intellect or gratifies our senses:  they gaze at the earth, but walk on with a firm step to seek power and profit.  And thus they get ahead of us, and yet—­ I would not change with them.”

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A debtor, says the proverb, is half a prisoner
Old women grow like men, and old men grow like women
They get ahead of us, and yet—­I would not change with them

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