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"How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless."

"Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them."

"I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances."

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Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One must eat muffins quite calmly, it is the only way to eat them.

"Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden."
"But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!"
"I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing."
"That may be, but the muffins are the same!"

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Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

You don't get tired of muffins. But you don't find inspiration in them

Toast your goddamn muffins.

Why can't I just eat my waffle?

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People sit together, bare their teeth and eat and, even in this critical moment, feel no desire to eat each other. They respect themselves for this, and respect their companions for an abstemiousness equal to their own.

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Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.

But how will I eat cake if my head is over there, and my hands are over here?

لا تقل أبدًا إني فيلسوف، ولا تكثر الحديث بين الجُهَّال عن نظرياتك، بل بيِّنها بالأفعال. فإذا كنت في وليمة فلا تقل كيف ينبغي الأكل بل كُل كما ينبغي.
وإذا دار أي حديث بين الجهَّال حول أي نظرياتٍ فلسفية فالزم الصمت دائمًا؛ فثَمة خطرٌ كبيرٌ بأن تقيء في الحال ما لم تهضمه.
ذلك أنه حتى الخِراف لا تقيء عشبها لكي تُريَ الرعاةَ كم أكلَت، بل عندما تهضم الكلأ داخلها فإنها تُخرِجه صوفًا ولبنًا.

لا تقل أبدًا إني فيلسوف، ولا تكثر الحديث بين الجهال عن نظرياتك، بل بيّنها بالأفعال. فإذا كنت في وليمة فلا تقل كيف ينبغي الأكل بل كل كما ينبغي ... وإذا دار أي حديث بين الجهّال حول أي نظريات فلسفية فالزم الصمت دائمًا؛ فثمة خطرٌ كبيرٌ بأن تقيء في الحال ما لم تهضمه. وعندما يأتي اليومٌ الذي يقال لك فيه: إنك لا تعرف شيئًا، فلا يثير ذلك غضبك ولا سخطك - فثق عندئذٍ أنك قد وضعت قدمك على بداية طريق الحكمة.
ذلك أنه حتى الخراف لا تقيء عشبها لكي نُريَ الرعاةً كم أكلت؛ بل عندما تهضم الكلأ داخلها فإنها تخرجه صوفاا ولبنا، أنت أيضًا لا تُظهر النظريات للجهال بل الأفعال الناتجة عن النظريات بعد أن يتم هضمّها.

Not a spoon clinked against a mug, not a creamer was popped, peeled and opened, not a breath. It was as though something else had joined them then. As though silence had taken a seat.

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