They will fatten well enough without your blood.
So I only ask as a student of the great nothing-in-general, which men call the universe.' 'I was prefect of a legion this morning.

What I am now, you know as well as I.' 'Just what I do not.

I am in deep wonder at seeing your hilarity, when, by all flea-analogies, you ought to be either be howling your fate like Achilles on the shores of Styx, or pretending to grin and bear it, as I was taught to do when I played at Stoicism.

You are not of that sect certainly, for you confessed yourself a fool just now.' 'And it would be long, would it not, before you made one of them do as much?
Well, be it so.

A fool I am; yet, if God helps us as far as Ostia, why should I not be cheerful ?' 'Why should you ?' 'What better thing can happen to a fool, than that God should teach that he is one, when he fancied himself the wisest of the wise?
Listen to me, sir.