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68. Y ou can no more improve yourself b y sacrificing at the altar than you can correct your grammar. 69. W e are more curious about the meaning o f dreams than about things we see when awake. 70. Pilfering Treasury property is particulary dangerous: big thieves are ruthless in punishing little thieves. 5° • 7i • It is not for charity but m y salary that I beg in the streets. 72 . Had to lift its skirt to see whether man or woman had stopped me to talk philosophy. •73 • I pissed on the man who called me a dog.

112. Joints are and are not parts of the body. T h e y cooperate through opposition, and make a harmony of separate forces. Wholeness arises from distinct particulars; distinct partic­ ulars occur in wholeness. 1 13 . T o live is to die, to be awake is to sleep, to be young is to be old, for the one flows into the other, and the process is capa­ ble of being reversed. 114. Hesiod, so wise a teacher, did not see that night and day are the same. 115 . A bow is alive only when it kills. 3° . 116 .

Teach them to ride a horse, to shoot a true bow, to master the slingshot and javelin. A t the gymnasium they should exercise only so much as gives them a good color and a trim body. Teach them to wait upon themselves at home, and to enjoy ordinary food, and to drink water rather than wine. Crop their hair close. N o ornaments. H ave them wear a thin smock, go barefoot, be silent, and never gaw k at people on the street. 56 . In the rich man’s house there is no place to spit but in his face. • 57 • T he luxurious have made frugality an affliction.