Caput

 1 I   |  guardian, increases by use, so our life is amply long for him
 2 II  |        to rise anew and lift up our eyes for the discernment
 3 III |         which we have caused by our own acts, add, too, the
 4 X   |         yet this is the part of our time that is sacred and
 5 XII |        wrestling-place (for, to our shame I we labour with vices
 6 XIII| knowledge, nevertheless it wins our attention by reason of the
 7 XIII|      great prosperity cast upon our minds! When he was casting
 8 XIV |       to all ages, and if it is our wish, by greatness of mind,
 9 XIV |    surrender ourselves with all our soul to the past, which
10 XIV |    eternal, which we share with our betters? ~ Those who rush
11 XV  |       to say that it was not in our power to choose the parents
12 XV  |         the parents who fell to our lot, that they have been
13 XVI |       what is it but to inflame our vices to inscribe the name
14 XVI |       divinity as an example to our own weakness? Can the nights
15 XVII|       Have we been tormented by our own public honours? Those
16 XVII|    Those of others take more of our time. Have we ceased to