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1 I | life at an end just when they are getting ready to live.
2 I | such favour to animals that they drag out five or ten lifetimes,4
3 II | takes them unawares while they loll and yawn—so surely
4 II | surround us on every side, and they do not permit us to rise
5 II | discernment of truth, but they keep us down when once they
6 II | they keep us down when once they have overwhelmed us and
7 II | their true selves; if ever they chance to find some release,
8 II | after the storm is past, they are tossed about, and no
9 II | prosperity men flock to behold; they are smothered by their blessings.
10 II | senseless indignation — they complain of the insolence
11 II | their superiors, because they were too busy to see them
12 II | too busy to see them when they wished an audience! But
13 III | this one theme, never could they adequately express their
14 III | seize their estates, and they rush to stones and arms
15 III | limit of their lands, yet they allow others to trespass
16 III | trespass upon their life—nay, they themselves even lead in
17 III | is right to be miserly, they show themselves most prodigal.
18 IV | let drop remarks in which they long for leisure, acclaim
19 IV | to all their blessings. They desire at times, if it could
20 IV | how many secret worries they concealed. Forced to pit
21 VI | but by these complaints they changed neither themselves
22 VI | themselves nor others. For when they have vented their feelings
23 VI | their feelings in words, they fall back into their usual
24 VI | such lives as yours, though they should pass the limit of
25 VII | engrossments.14 The others, even if they are possessed by the empty
26 VII(14) | the interests of life that they take no time for philosophy. ~~
27 VII | people,15 see how much time they give to accounts, how much
28 VII | mastered so thoroughly that they could even play the master.
29 VII | from life confessing that they did not yet know—still less
30 VII | any hour can now bring? They are all known, all have
31 VIII | others and those from whom they ask it most indulgent. Both
32 VIII | thing in the world; but they are blind to it because
33 VIII | and doles, and for these they hire out their labour or
34 VIII | the knees of physicians if they fall ill and the danger
35 VIII | draws nearer, see how ready they are, if threatened with
36 VIII | how sparing of them would they be! And yet it is easy to
37 VIII | time is; for to those whom they love most devotedly they
38 VIII | they love most devotedly they have a habit of saying that
39 VIII | have a habit of saying that they are ready to give them a
40 VIII | of their own years. And they do give it, without realizing
41 VIII | of their giving is that they themselves suffer loss without
42 VIII | ones. But the very thing they do not know is whether they
43 VIII | they do not know is whether they are suffering loss; therefore,
44 VIII | lost without being noticed they find is bearable. Yet no
45 IX | boast of their foresight? They keep themselves very busily
46 IX | busily engaged in order that they may be able to live better;
47 IX | be able to live better; they spend life in making ready
48 IX | in making ready to live! They form their purposes with
49 IX | are still childish, and they come to it unprepared and
50 IX | unprepared and unarmed, for they have made no provision for
51 IX | made no provision for it; they have stumbled upon it suddenly
52 IX | suddenly and unexpectedly, they did not notice that it was
53 X | particular fault, I say that they must be instructed, not
54 X | engrossed lose this; for they have no time to look back
55 X | upon the past, and even if they should have, it is not pleasant
56 X | pleasant to recall something they must view with regret. They
57 X | they must view with regret. They are, therefore, unwilling
58 X | vices become obvious if they review the past, even the
59 X | appear when you bid them, they will suffer you to behold
60 X | from them, distracted as they are among many things. ~
61 XI | do you want to know how they do not "live long"? See
62 XI | live long"? See how eager they are to live long! Decrepit
63 XI | addition of a few more years; they pretend that they are younger
64 XI | years; they pretend that they are younger than they are;
65 XI | that they are younger than they are; they comfort themselves
66 XI | are younger than they are; they comfort themselves with
67 XI | deceive themselves as if they deceived Fate at the same
68 XI | mortality, in what terror do they die, feeling that they are
69 XI | do they die, feeling that they are being dragged out of
70 XI | and not merely leaving it. They cry out that they have been
71 XI | leaving it. They cry out that they have been fools, because
72 XI | have been fools, because they have not really lived, and
73 XI | not really lived, and that they will live henceforth in
74 XI | henceforth in leisure if only they escape from this illness;
75 XI | this illness; then at last they reflect how uselessly they
76 XI | they reflect how uselessly they have striven for things
77 XI | striven for things which they did not enjoy, and how all
78 XII | midst of solitude, although they have withdrawn from all
79 XII | withdrawn from all others, they are themselves the source
80 XII | hours at the barber's while they are being stripped of whatever
81 XII | the forehead? How angry they get if the barber has been
82 XII | shearing a real man! How they flare up if any of their
83 XII | and learning songs, while they twist the voice, whose best
84 XII | snapping their fingers as they beat time to some song they
85 XII | they beat time to some song they have in their head, who
86 XII | overheard humming a tune when they have been summoned to serious,
87 XII | since I see how anxiously they set out their silver plate,
88 XII | silver plate, how diligently they tie up the tunics of their
89 XII | slave-boys, how breathlessly they watch to see in what style
90 XII | drunkards. By such means they seek the reputation of being
91 XII | the privacies of life that they can neither eat nor drink
92 XII | reminded by someone else when they must bathe, when they must
93 XII | when they must bathe, when they must swim, when they must
94 XII | when they must swim, when they must dine; so enfeebled
95 XII | must dine; so enfeebled are they by the excessive lassitude
96 XII | of a pampered mind that they cannot find out by themselves
97 XII | out by themselves whether they are hungry! I hear that
98 XII | pretended not to know this. They really are subject to forgetfulness
99 XII | forgetfulness of many things, but they also pretend forgetfulness
100 XII | of luxury! In very truth, they pass over more than they
101 XII | they pass over more than they invent, and such a multitude
102 XIII | their bodies in the sun. They are not unoccupied whose
103 XIII | first, whether moreover they belong to the same author,
104 XIII | these matters, even if they add nothing to real glory,
105 XIII | Circus, though at other times they were exhibited in chains,
106 XIII | after a new fashion. Do they fight to the death? That
107 XIII | That is not enough! Are they torn to pieces? That is
108 XIII(29)| were so moved by pity that they rose in a body and called
109 XIII | For though you grant that they tell these things in good
110 XIII | things in good faith, though they pledge themselves for the
111 XIII | themselves for the truth of what they write, still whose mistakes
112 XIII | stories? Whose passions will they restrain? Whom will they
113 XIII | they restrain? Whom will they make more brave, whom more
114 XIV | XIV. Of all men they alone are at leisure who
115 XIV | take time for philosophy, they alone really live; for they
116 XIV | they alone really live; for they are not content to be good
117 XIV | their own lifetime only. They annex ever age to their
118 XIV | were born for us; for us they have prepared a way of life.
119 XIV | and others no rest, when they have fully indulged their
120 XIV | indulged their madness, when they have every day crossed everybody'
121 XIV | open door unvisited, when they have carried around their
122 XIV | varied desires, how few will they be able to see? How many
123 XIV | out! How many who, when they have tortured them with
124 XIV | But we may fairly say that they alone are engaged in the
125 XV | who fell to our lot, that they have been given to men by
126 XVI | brief and troubled; when they have reached the end of
127 XVI | that for such a long while they have been busied in doing
128 XVI | doing nothing. Nor because they sometimes invoke death,
129 XVI | think it any proof that they find life long. In their
130 XVI | life long. In their folly they are harassed by shifting
131 XVI | them into the very things they dread; they often pray for
132 XVI | very things they dread; they often pray for death because
133 XVI | often pray for death because they fear it. And, too, you have
134 XVI | that this is any proof that they are living a long time—the
135 XVI | them long, the fact that they complain that the hours
136 XVI | engrossments fail them, they are restless because they
137 XVI | they are restless because they are left with nothing to
138 XVI | with nothing to do, and they do not know how to dispose
139 XVI | drag out the time. And so they strive for something else
140 XVI | time is irksome; exactly as they do when a gladiatorial exhibition\
141 XVI | been announced, or when they are waiting for the appointed
142 XVI | other show or amusement, they want to skip over the days
143 XVI | postponement of something they hope for seems long to them.
144 XVI | them. Yet the time which they enjoy is short and swift,
145 XVI | by their own fault; for they flee from one pleasure to
146 XVI | scanty seem the nights which they spend in the arms of a harlot
147 XVI | frailties by the tales in which they represent that Jupiter under
148 XVI | weakness? Can the nights which they pay for so dearly fail to
149 XVI | too short to these men? They lose the day in expectation
150 XVII | kings to weep over the power they possessed, and they have
151 XVII | power they possessed, and they have not so much delighted
152 XVII | greatness of their fortune, as they have viewed with terror
153 XVII | uneasy from fear? Because they do not rest on stable causes,
154 XVII | perturbed as groundlessly as they are born. But of what sort
155 XVII | since even the joys by which they are exalted and lifted above
156 XVII | who work hard to gain what they must work harder to keep.
157 XVII | harder to keep. By great toil they attain what they wish, and
158 XVII | great toil they attain what they wish, and with anxiety hold
159 XVII | and with anxiety hold what they have attained; meanwhile
160 XVII | have attained; meanwhile they take no account of time
161 XVII | ambition to new ambition. They do not seek an end of their
162 XVIII | the greatest subterfuge they concealed the great evil
163 XX | bought at the price of life. They will waste all their years,
164 XX | their years, in order that they may have one year reckoned
165 XX | first struggles, before they could climb up to the height
166 XX | their ambition; some, when they have crawled up through
167 XX | the unhappy thought that they have but toiled for an inscription
168 XX | to extreme old age, while they adjusted it to new hopes
169 XX | longer than their ability; they fight against the weakness
170 XX | the weakness of the body, they judge old age to be a hardship
171 XX | the law. Meantime, while they rob and are being robbed,
172 XX | are being robbed, while they break up each other's repose,
173 XX | each other's repose, while they make each other wretched,
174 XX | wax tapers,47 as though they had lived but the tiniest
175 XX(47) | i.e., as if they were children, whose funerals
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