Caput

 1 I    |      spitefulness of Nature, because we are born for a brief span
 2 I    |         achievements. It is not that we have a short space of time,
 3 I    |              space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is
 4 I    |            by the ultimate necessity we perceive that it has passed
 5 I    |            it has passed away before we were aware that it was passing.
 6 I    |           passing. So it is—the life we receive is not short, but
 7 I    |            receive is not short, but we make it so, nor do we have
 8 I    |            but we make it so, nor do we have any lack of it, but
 9 II   |                           II. Why do we complain of Nature? She
10 II   |            oracle: "The part of life we really live is small."5
11 II   |              have overwhelmed us and we are chained to lust. Their
12 III  |               Add the diseases which we have caused by our own acts,
13 III  |              begin to live just when we must cease to live! What
14 VII  |             everywhere; some of them we have seen that mere boys
15 IX   |         swift journey of life, which we make at the same pace whether
16 X    | old-fashioned kind, used to say that we must fight against the passions
17 XII  |           source of their own worry; we should say that these are
18 XII  | wrestling-place (for, to our shame I we labour with vices that are
19 XII  |           one direction, that by now we can charge the mimes with
20 XIII |  attractiveness of an empty subject. We may excuse also those who
21 XIV  |      addition to their store. Unless we are most ungrateful, all
22 XIV  |               By other men's labours we are led to the sight of
23 XIV  |          into light; from no age are we shut out, we have access
24 XIV  |              no age are we shut out, we have access to all ages,
25 XIV  |        stretch of time through which we may roam. We may argue with
26 XIV  |           through which we may roam. We may argue with Socrates,
27 XIV  |             may argue with Socrates, we may doubt32 with Carneades,
28 XIV  |           with every age, why should we not turn from this paltry
29 XIV  |              which is eternal, which we share with our betters? ~
30 XIV  |              a thousand times! ~ But we may fairly say that they
31 XV   |            he may fashion himself. ~ We are wont to say that it
32 XV   |          given to men by chance; yet we may be the sons of whomsoever
33 XV   |            be the sons of whomsoever we will. Households there are
34 XV   |              things that are far off we are more free to admire.
35 XVII |            that have turned out well we must make still other prayers.
36 XVII |           but change the cause. Have we been tormented by our own
37 XVII |          take more of our time. Have we ceased to labour as candidates?
38 XVII |             to labour as candidates? We begin to canvass for others.
39 XVII |             canvass for others. Have we got rid of the troubles
40 XVII |            troubles of a prosecutor? We find those of a judge. Has
41 XVII |          succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure,
42 XVIII|             resources of the empire, we were threatened with the
43 XIX  |          Nature lays us to rest When we are freed from the body;
44 XIX  |              while the blood is hot, we must enter with brisk step