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 1 II  |         loll and yawn—so surely does it happen that I cannot
 2 II  | constant pleasures! To how many does the throng of clients that
 3 II  |      who you are, the great man does sometimes look toward you
 4 II  |        his face is insolent, he does sometimes condescend to
 5 III |       money, yet among how many does each one of us distribute
 6 V   |        adversity—how many times does he curse that very consulship
 7 VII |         takes the food which he does not desire and yet can hold.
 8 VIII|   incorporeal thing, because it does not come beneath the sight
 9 X   |        into an abyss; and as it does no good, no matter how much
10 XII |        lies out of order, if it does not all fall into its proper
11 XII |        think that this man, who does not know whether he is sitting,
12 XIII|        may find some excuse—but does it serve any useful purpose
13 XIII|      human.29 O, what blindness does great prosperity cast upon
14 XV  |  nothing that the lapse of time does not tear down and remove.
15 XVII|      consulship keeps him busy. Does Quintius38 hasten to get
16 XIX | transport it, in seeing that it does not become heated and spoiled
17 XX  |        puts them aside. The law does not draft a soldier after
18 XX  |     after his fiftieth year, it does not call a senator after