Variant translation: Your question, Mr. Examining Magistrate, as to whether I am a house-painter — although you did not ask a question at all, you made a statement — typifies exactly the kind of proceedings that are being instituted against me. The Trial
Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if unworthy, for it is an equal error and mistake to blame the praisable and to praise the blamable. Gorgias
Youth is the time when hearts are large. On The Slain Collegians
“He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.” Uncle Vanya
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