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“What an obstacle had suddenly arisen to block K.'s career! And this was the moment when he was supposed to work for the bank? He looked down at his desk. This the time to interview clients and negotiate with them? While his case was unfolding itself, while up in the attics the Court officials were poring over the charge papers, was he to devote his attention to the affairs of the bank? It looked like a kind of torture sanctioned by the Court, arising from his case and concomitant with it.”
The Trial • Franz Kafka“Check your passions, that you may not be punished by them.”
Fragment • Epictetus“It matters not whether you place the sick man on a wooden bed or one of gold; wherever you lay him, he carries his disease along with him.”
Day's Collacon • Lucius Annaeus Seneca“Though the ancients were ignorant of the principles of Christianity there were in them the germs of its spirit.”
The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces • Herman Melville“About fame... Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.”
Book VII • Marcus Aurelius