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1 I | but we make it so, nor do we have any lack of it,
2 II | II. Why do we complain of Nature? She
3 II | on every side, and they do not permit us to rise anew
4 II | a burden! From how many do eloquence and the daily
5 III | darkness of the human mind. Men do not suffer anyone to seize
6 V | shattered arms in Spain! "Do you ask," he said, "what
7 VI | from you quickly; for you do not seize it, you neither
8 VII | call them evil or good, do not allow them time to breathe. ~
9 VII | not yet know—still less do those others know. Believe
10 VIII | suppose that these people do not know how precious a
11 VIII | their own years. And they do give it, without realizing
12 VIII | But the very thing they do not know is whether they
13 IX | lies in your own. Whither do you look? At what goal do
14 IX | do you look? At what goal do you aim? All things that
15 IX | ever first to flee.19 ~"Why do you delay," says he, "Why
16 IX | length your greed inclines, do you stretch before yourself
17 X | allurement of momentary pleasure, do not have the courage to
18 X | engrossed have no time to do. The mind that is untroubled
19 XI | XI. In a word, do you want to know how they
20 XI | you want to know how they do not "live long"? See how
21 XI | mortality, in what terror do they die, feeling that they
22 XII | elegant, and to such an extent do their evils follow them
23 XII | questioningly: "Am I now seated?" Do you think that this man,
24 XIII | the first Roman general to do this or that; Duilius was
25 XIII | beings after a new fashion. Do they fight to the death?
26 XV | no fault of theirs if you do not draw the utmost that
27 XVI | are left with nothing to do, and they do not know how
28 XVI | nothing to do, and they do not know how to dispose
29 XVI | irksome; exactly as they do when a gladiatorial exhibition\
30 XVII | from fear? Because they do not rest on stable causes,
31 XVII | are born. But of what sort do you think those times are
32 XVII | ambition to new ambition. They do not seek an end of their
33 XVIII| yourself as well. And I do not summon you to slothful
34 XIX | XIX. Do you retire to these quieter,
35 XX | is famous in the Forum, do not envy him; those things
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