estling school,
and of a purple robe that Paulus held out to him, of a wreath of poplar
leaves that rested on his scented curls, and of the beautiful woman who
had met him on the stairs of the senator's house.

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Action trod on the heels of resolve
Homo sum; humani nil a me alienum puto
I am human, nothing that is human can I regard as alien to me
Love is at once the easiest and the most difficult
Love overlooks the ravages of years and has a good memory
No judgment is so hard as that dealt by a slave to slaves
No man is more than man, and many men are less
Sky as bare of cloud as the rocks are of shrubs and herbs
Sleep avoided them both, and each knew that the other was awake
The older one grows the quicker the hours hurry away
To pray is better than to bathe
Wakefulness may prolong the little term of life

HOMO SUM

By Georg Ebers

Volume 2.

CHAPTER V.

Thanks to the senator's potion Stephanus soon fell asleep. Paulus sat
near him and did not stir; he held his breath, and painfully suppressed
even an impulse to cough, so as not to disturb the sick man's light
slumbers.

An hour after midnight the old man awoke, and after he had lain
meditating for some time with his eyes open, he said thoughtfully: "You
called yourself and us all egotistic, and I certainly am so. I have often
said so to myself; not for the first time to day, but for weeks past,
since Hermas came back from Alexandria, and seems to have forgotten how
to laugh. He is not happy, and when I ask myself what is to become of him
when I am dead, and if he turns from the Lord and seeks the pleasures of
the world, my heart sickens. I meant it for the best when I brought him
with me up to the Holy Mountain, but that was not the only motive--it
seemed to me too hard to part altogether from the child. My God! the
young of brutes are secure of their mother's faithful love, and his never
asked for him when she fled from my house with her seducer. I thought he
should at least not lose his father, and that if he grew up far away from
the world he would be spared all the sorrow that it had so profusely
heaped upon me, I would have brought him up fit for Heaven, and yet
through a life devoid of suffering. And now--and now? If he is miserable
it will be through me, and added to all my other troubles comes this
grief."

"You have sought out the way for