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This passage is awful: "[Buddhism in India] preached that there was no gender distinction. [Buddhism in China], however, [...] became polluted by the joint misogyny of Taoism [...] and Confucianism." This is far too simplified and biased by the modern world. Many Indian texts say that women are more corrupted than men, and Tang China took many of the nondiscriminatory elements of Indian Buddhism as key points.

"Besides, what would be the point of reminding you of the common herd, all of whom without any controversy belong to my camp? They riot in so many different forms of folly, and every day bring forth so many new ones, that not even a thousand Democrituses would suffice to laugh at them; and then you'd need one extra Democritus to laugh at the thousand laughers."

Think how dogs and huntsmen off in the wilds
rush some antlered stag or skittish mountain goat
but a rocky gorge or shadowed forest gives him shelter—
they see it's not their lot to bring that quarry down,
their shouting only flushes a great bearded lion
ramping across their path, suddenly chargning them,
scattering men and packs despite their lust for battle—
so up till now the Achaeans kept advancing [...]

For instance, how many souls had to be destroyed, and honest reputations put to shame, in order to get just one righteous Job, with whom they baited me so wickedly in olden times! No, until the secret is revealed, two truths exist for me: one is theirs, from there, and one so far completely unknown to me; the other is mine.

lol

"Wickedness is sweet: everyone denounces it, but everyone lives in it, only they all do it on the sly and I do it openly. And for this ingenuousness of mine, the wicked ones all attack me."

I fled from my shadow and
leapt over seven pumpkins.
Where, oh where
is a town without memories?