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 1 I      |     span of life, because even this space that has been granted
 2 I      |        who were famous. It was this that made the greatest of
 3 I(1)   |  chapters 18 and 19 that, when this essay was written (in or
 4 I      |   short, art is long;"2 it was this that led Aristotle,3 while
 5 II     |      the lowest to the highest—this man desires an advocate,6
 6 II     |      man desires an advocate,6 this one answers the call, that
 7 III    |       were to concentrate upon this one theme, never could they
 8 III    |        express their wonder at this dense darkness of the human
 9 III    |         then, is the reason of this? You live as if you were
10 IV     |  conversation ever reverted to this subject—his hope of leisure.
11 IV     |   subject—his hope of leisure. This was the sweet, even if vain,
12 IV     |        relief for his labours. This was the prayer of one who
13 VII    |      over and over: "When will this year be over!" That man
14 VII(18)|                             At this time the management of the
15 VIII   |     sight of the eyes, and for this reason it is counted a very
16 IX     |       about the day, and about this very day that is flying.
17 IX     |   approaching it, just so with this unceasing and most swift
18 X      |     men who are engrossed lose this; for they have no time to
19 X      |        his own memory. And yet this is the part of our time
20 X      |      by no attacks of disease; this can neither be troubled
21 X      |    cannot be grasped, and even this is filched away from them,
22 XI     |       if only they escape from this illness; then at last they
23 XI     |     none of it is scattered in this direction and that, none
24 XII    |       thinning ones drawn from this side and that toward the
25 XII    |     seated?" Do you think that this man, who does not know whether
26 XII    |       he pretended not to know this. They really are subject
27 XII    |        what he is doing. After this imagine that the mimes26
28 XII    |        vices has come forth in this age, so clever in this one
29 XII    |      in this age, so clever in this one direction, that by now
30 XII    |    whether he is sitting down! This man, then, is not at leisure,
31 XII    | perception of his leisure. But this other who is half alive,
32 XIII   |       various other matters of this stamp, which, if you keep
33 XIII   |        than a scholar. But now this vain passion for learning
34 XIII   |      first Roman general to do this or that; Duilius was the
35 XIII   |    also those who inquire into this—who first induced the Romans
36 XIII   |     ship. It was Claudius, and this was the very reason he was
37 XIII   |   called codicariae. Doubtless this too may have some point—
38 XIII   |       to be interested also in this—the fact that Lucius Sulla
39 XIII   | despatch them? And, doubtless, this too may find some excuse—
40 XIII   |     power of Nature. But later this same man, betrayed by Alexandrine
41 XIII   |        more profitable to know this than that Mount Aventine,
42 XIV    |        should we not turn from this paltry and fleeting span
43 XV     |     which no one is cast down. This is the only way of prolonging
44 XV     |       Has some time passed by? This he embraces by recollection.
45 XV     | recollection. Is time present? This he uses. Is it still to
46 XV     |     uses. Is it still to come? This he anticipates. He makes
47 XVI    |        no reason to think that this is any proof that they are
48 XVI    |       harlot or in wine! It is this also that accounts for the
49 XVII   |       will these things last?" This feeling has led kings to
50 XVIII  |         you were not aiming at this—that it might be safe to
51 XIX    |        matter in the centre of this world, suspends the light
52 XIX    |     upon the better course. In this kind of life there awaits