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KEJSER JULIAN
[...] Verdensviljen har ligget i baghold efter mig, Maximos!

KEJSER JULIAN forsøger at rejse sig, men falder tilbage og råber
Du har sejret, Galilæer!

VISDOMSLÆREREN KYTRON: Du hører mig ikke, herre! Det er højst vigtigt at jeg ikke kommer til skade; mit skrift 'Om sindsro under vanskelige forhold' er ikke færdigt -

MYSTIKEREN MAXIMOS: Den tid er nær, da menneskene ikke behøver at dø for at leve som guder på jorden.

KEJSER JULIAN: Hvor sælsomt! Hvor er det ikke i sin dybeste grund ufattelig? Oribases, - kan du forklare mig denne gåde?
LIVLÆGEN ORIBASES: Min kejser, - hvilkwn gåde mener du?
KEJSER JULIAN: Med tolv ringe mænd, fiskere, uvidende mennesker, grundlagde han dette.

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

Those who have not learned to read the ancient classics in the language in which they were written must have an imperfect knowledge of the history of the human race; [...].

No wonder that Alexander carried the Iliad with him on his expeditions in a precious casket. A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. [...] The symbol of an ancient man's thought becomes a modern man's speech.

To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem.

For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man?

It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, [...].

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it. To speak critically, I never received more than one or two letters in my life - I wrote this some years ago - that were worth the postage.

I went into the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature itself. I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things which I did. [...] Morning brings back the heroic ages. [...] The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. [...] Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me. [...] To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?

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