although I had often to work and dig like a worm.— B: The reason is that you have divested yourself of scepticism. For you take a negative position —A: And in so doing I have again learnt to be positive.
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Pass by.—Spare him! Leave him in his solitude! Are you, then, bent upon crushing him? He is flawed like a glass into which suddenly some hot liquid was poured,—and he was such a precious glass!
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Lore and truthfulness.—For love's sake we are dire offenders against truth and have become habitual concealers and thieves, who report more things as true than really appear to be true,—wherefore the thinker has periodically to drive away the persons whom he loves (they will not always be those who love him), so that they may show their sting and wickedness and cease to tempt him. Consequently the kindness of the thinker will have its waning and waxing moon.
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Inevitable.—Whatever you may experience, anybody who is not well inclined towards you is sure to detect in your experience an occasion for disparaging you. You may pass through the deepest revolutions of mind and knowledge, and at last, with the melancholy smile of the
