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1 I | getting ready to live. Nor is it merely the common herd
2 I | unthinking crowd that bemoan what is, as men deem it, an universal
3 I | physicians exclaim that "life is short, art is long;"2 it
4 I | that "life is short, art is long;"2 it was this that
5 I(1) | It is clear from chapters 18 and
6 I(1) | wife, Pompeia Paulina, and is usually identified with
7 I | that a much shorter limit is fixed for man, though he
8 I | fixed for man, though he is born for so many and such
9 I | such great achievements. It is not that we have a short
10 I | we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has
11 I | things if the whole of it is well invested. But when
12 I | well invested. But when it is squandered in luxury and
13 I | and carelessness, when it is devoted to no good end,
14 I | that it was passing. So it is—the life we receive is not
15 I | it is—the life we receive is not short, but we make it
16 I | great and princely wealth is scattered in a moment when
17 I | wealth however limited, if it is entrusted to a good guardian,
18 I | increases by use, so our life is amply long for him who orders
19 II | you know how to use it, is long. But one man is possessed
20 II | it, is long. But one man is possessed by an avarice
21 II | possessed by an avarice that is insatiable, another by a
22 II | that are useless; one man is besotted with wine, another
23 II | besotted with wine, another is paralyzed by sloth; one
24 II | paralyzed by sloth; one man is exhausted by an ambition
25 II | the greed of the trader, is led over all lands and all
26 II | part of life we really live is small."5 For all the rest
27 II | all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.
28 II | heave even after the storm is past, they are tossed about,
29 II | answers the call, that one is on trial, that one defends
30 II | claim to himself, everyone is wasted for the sake of another.
31 II | and B cultivates C; no one is his own master. And then
32 II | toward you even if his face is insolent, he does sometimes
33 II | give ear to yourself. There is no reason, therefore, to
34 III | stones and arms if there is even the slightest dispute
35 III | eventually possess it. No one is to be found who is willing
36 III | No one is to be found who is willing to distribute his
37 III | the one thing in which it is right to be miserly, they
38 III | your season!"7 What, then, is the reason of this? You
39 III | on some person or thing is perhaps your last. You have
40 III | any business? How late it is to begin to live just when
41 III(7) | season" (Job v. 26); but he is still unripe. ~~
42 IV | since the joyful reality is still far distant, my desire
43 IV(8) | The idea is that greatness sinks beneath
44 IV(11) | The language is reminiscent of Augustus'
45 V | doubtful friends, as he is tossed to and fro along
46 V | possibly be above him who is above Fortune? ~
47 VI | when once started on, he is said to have complained
48 VI | powerfully, indeed, that it is very well known that in
49 VI | nuisance in the forum. It is a question whether he died
50 VII | into lust bear a stain that is dishonourable. Search into
51 VII(14) | occupati, "the engrossed," is a technical term designating
52 VII | being courted, how much is taken up in giving or receiving
53 VII | successfully followed by a man who is busied with many things—
54 VII | rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into
55 VII | crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is
56 VII | is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living:
57 VII | with than living: there is nothing that is harder to
58 VII | living: there is nothing that is harder to learn. Of the
59 VII | that the life of such a man is very long because he has
60 VII | little of it. ~ And there is no reason for you to suppose
61 VII | Of how many that man who is shamming sickness for the
62 VII | of them?" That advocate is lionized throughout the
63 VII | morrow. For what new pleasure is there that any hour can
64 VII | addition as the man who is satisfied and filled takes
65 VII | yet can hold. And so there is no reason for you to think
66 VIII | itself; just as if what is asked were nothing, what
67 VIII | asked were nothing, what is given, nothing. Men trifle
68 VIII | are blind to it because it is an incorporeal thing, because
69 VIII | and for this reason it is counted a very cheap thing—
70 VIII | order to live! So great is the inconsistency of their
71 VIII | years set before him as is possible in the case of
72 VIII | would they be! And yet it is easy to dispense an amount
73 VIII | dispense an amount that is assured, no matter how small
74 VIII | know not when. ~ Yet there is no reason for you to suppose
75 VIII | how precious a thing time is; for to those whom they
76 VIII | the result of their giving is that they themselves suffer
77 VIII | very thing they do not know is whether they are suffering
78 VIII | removal of something that is lost without being noticed
79 VIII | being noticed they find is bearable. Yet no one will
80 IX | future; yet postponement is the greatest waste of life;
81 IX | greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends
82 IX | in hapless mortals' life~Is ever first to flee.19 ~"
83 IX | the utterance of the bard is most admirably worded to
84 IX | about this very day that is flying. Is there, then,
85 IX | very day that is flying. Is there, then, any doubt that
86 IX | for hapless mortals, that is, for men who are engrossed,
87 IX | engrossed, the fairest day is ever the first to flee?
88 X | pinpricks; that sophistry is not serviceable, for the
89 X | merely wept over. Life is divided into three periods—
90 X | which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of
91 X | Of these the present time is short, the future is doubtful,
92 X | time is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain.
93 X | future is doubtful, the past is certain. For the last is
94 X | is certain. For the last is the one over which Fortune
95 X | Fortune has lost control, is the one which cannot be
96 X | if they should have, it is not pleasant to recall something
97 X | of his conscience, which is never deceived; he who has
98 X | own memory. And yet this is the part of our time that
99 X | the part of our time that is sacred and set apart, put
100 X | Fortune, the part which is disquieted by no want, by
101 X | nor be snatched away—it is an everlasting and unanxious
102 X | time to do. The mind that is untroubled and tranquil
103 X | into a vessel, if there is no bottom21 to receive and
104 X | makes no difference how much is given; if there is nothing
105 X | much is given; if there is nothing for it to settle
106 X | of the mind. Present time is very brief, so brief, indeed,
107 X | seems to be none; for it is always in motion, it ever
108 X | present time alone, and it is so brief that it cannot
109 X | be grasped, and even this is filched away from them,
110 XI | But for those whose life is passed remote from all business,
111 XI | not be ample? None of it is assigned to another, none
112 XI | assigned to another, none of it is scattered in this direction
113 XI | direction and that, none of it is committed to Fortune, none
114 XI | perishes from neglect, none is subtracted by wasteful giving,
115 XI | wasteful giving, none of it is unused; the whole of it,
116 XI | small the amount of it, it is abundantly sufficient, and
117 XII | the engrossed "? There is no reason for you to suppose
118 XII | busy in seeking gain that is disreputable and that will
119 XII | the leisure of some men is engrossed; in their villa
120 XII | Would you say that that man is at leisure25 who arranges
121 XII | before? while a solemn debate is held over each separate
122 XII | up if any of their mane is lopped off, if any of it
123 XII | disordered than his hair? Who is not more concerned to have
124 XII | does not know whether he is sitting, knows whether he
125 XII | sitting, knows whether he is alive, whether he sees,
126 XII | whether he sees, whether he is at leisure? I find it hard
127 XII | seems the part of a man who is very lowly and despicable
128 XII | despicable to know what he is doing. After this imagine
129 XII | neglect. To think that there is anyone who is so lost in
130 XII | that there is anyone who is so lost in luxury that he
131 XII | s word as to whether he is sitting down! This man,
132 XII | sitting down! This man, then, is not at leisure, you must
133 XII | him a different term—he is sick, nay, he is dead; that
134 XII | term—he is sick, nay, he is dead; that man is at leisure,
135 XII | nay, he is dead; that man is at leisure, who has also
136 XII | leisure. But this other who is half alive, who, in order
137 XIII | even among the Romans there is now a great number. It was
138 XIII | fight to the death? That is not enough! Are they torn
139 XIII | they torn to pieces? That is not enough! Let them be
140 XIII | of provincial, territory. Is it more profitable to know
141 XIII | Aventine, according to him, is outside the pomerium for
142 XIV | access to all ages, and if it is our wish, by greatness of
143 XIV | of human weakness, there is a great stretch of time
144 XIV | soul to the past, which is boundless, which is eternal,
145 XIV | which is boundless, which is eternal, which we share
146 XIV | out through a hall that is crowded with clients, and
147 XV | height from which no one is cast down. This is the only
148 XV | no one is cast down. This is the only way of prolonging
149 XV | quickly sink to ruin; there is nothing that the lapse of
150 XV | since envy works upon what is close at hand, and things
151 XV | has wide range, and he is not confined by the same
152 XV | shut others in. He alone is freed from the limitations
153 XV | embraces by recollection. Is time present? This he uses.
154 XV | time present? This he uses. Is it still to come? This he
155 XVI | future have a life that is very brief and troubled;
156 XVI | reason to think that this is any proof that they are
157 XVI | all the intervening time is irksome; exactly as they
158 XVI | gladiatorial exhibition\b is been announced, or when
159 XVI | the time which they enjoy is short and swift, and it
160 XVI | short and swift, and it is made much shorter by their
161 XVI | a harlot or in wine! It is this also that accounts
162 XVI | length of the night. For what is it but to inflame our vices
163 XVII | he had such fear. And why is it that even their joys
164 XVII | anxiety, and at no time is fortune less wisely trusted
165 XVII | wisely trusted than when it is best; to maintain prosperity
166 XVII | maintain prosperity there is need of other prosperity,
167 XVII | comes to us from chance is unstable, and the higher
168 XVII | rises, the more liable it is to fall. Moreover, what
169 XVII | to fall. Moreover, what is doomed to perish brings
170 XVII | of others at a salary? He is perplexed by caring for
171 XVII(37)| boot of the common soldier, is here synonymous with service
172 XVII | Carthaginians before he is ripe for so great an undertaking;
173 XVII | gods, at length, when he is old, his ambition will lake
174 XVIII | dear to the crowd. That is not to rest; you will find
175 XVIII | in an office in which it is difficult to avoid hatred;
176 XVIII | nevertheless believe me, it is better to have knowledge
177 XVIII | keen mind of yours, which is most competent to cope with
178 XVIII | subjects, from a service that is indeed honourable but hardly
179 XVIII | neither listens to reason, nor is appeased by justice, nor
180 XVIII | appeased by justice, nor is bent by any entreaty. Very
181 XVIII | treated while the patient is kept in ignorance; knowledge
182 XIX | things! Think you that it is just the same whether you
183 XIX | body; what the principle is that upholds all the heaviest
184 XIX | things! Now while the blood is hot, we must enter with
185 XIX | life there awaits much that is good to know—the love and
186 XIX | of all who are engrossed is wretched, but most wretched
187 XIX | wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who
188 XIX | know how short their life is, let them reflect how small
189 XIX | reflect how small a part of it is their own. ~
190 XX | when you see one whose name is famous in the Forum, do
191 XX | shameless endeavours. Shameful is he whose breath leaves him
192 XX | of an ignorant circle, he is pleading for some litigant
193 XX | pleading for some litigant who is the veriest stranger; disgraceful
194 XX | veriest stranger; disgraceful is he who, exhausted more quickly
195 XX | his duties; disgraceful is he who dies in the act of
196 XX | work was restored to him. Is it really such pleasure
197 XX | senator after his sixtieth; it is more difficult for men to
198 XX | other wretched, their life is without profit, without
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