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1 I(1) | therefore, a man of importance. He was, believably, a near
2 I | is fixed for man, though he is born for so many and
3 II | the pride of another when he himself has no time to attend
4 II | if his face is insolent, he does sometimes condescend
5 II | to listen to your words, he permits you to appear at
6 III(7) | Literally, "unripe." At 100 he should "come to his grave
7 III(7) | season" (Job v. 26); but he is still unripe. ~~
8 IV | consolation with which he would gladden his labours—
9 IV | gladden his labours—that he would one day live for himself.
10 IV | to the senate, in which he had promised that his rest
11 IV | thing did leisure seem that he anticipated it in thought
12 IV | anticipated it in thought because he could not attain it in reality.
13 IV | not attain it in reality. He who saw everything depending
14 IV | that future day on which he should lay aside his greatness.
15 IV | lay aside his greatness. He had discovered how much
16 IV | lastly against his relatives, he shed blood on land and sea. ~
17 IV | and almost all countries he followed the path of battle,
18 IV | of shedding Roman blood, he turned them to foreign wars.
19 IV | them to foreign wars. While he was pacifying the Alpine
20 IV | a peaceful empire, while he was extending its bounds
21 IV | to slay him. Not yet had he escaped their plots, when
22 IV | rupture somewhere. And so he longed for leisure, in the
23 IV | hope and thought of which he found relief for his labours.
24 V | others doubtful friends, as he is tossed to and fro along
25 V | last swept away, unable as he was to be restful in prosperity
26 V | adversity—how many times does he curse that very consulship
27 V | consulship of his, which he had lauded without end,
28 V | reason! How tearful the words he uses in a letter12 written
29 V | in Spain! "Do you ask," he said, "what I am doing here?
30 V | villa half a prisoner." He then proceeds to other statements,
31 V | other statements, in which he bewails his former life
32 V | future. Cicero said that he was "half a prisoner." But,
33 V | lowly a term, never will he be half a prisoner—he who
34 V | will he be half a prisoner—he who always possesses an
35 VI | out for his policy, which he could neither carry through
36 VI | abandon when once started on, he is said to have complained
37 VI | against the life of unrest he had had from the cradle,
38 VI | and to have exclaimed that he was the only person who
39 VI | even as a boy. For, while he was still a ward and wearing
40 VI | wearing the dress of a boy, he had had the courage to commend
41 VI | known that in certain trials he forced a favourable verdict.
42 VI | for him to complain that he had never had a holiday
43 VI | holiday when from boyhood he had been a trouble-maker
44 VI | It is a question whether he died by his own hand; for
45 VI | died by his own hand; for he fell from a sudden wound
46 VI(13) | As tribune in 91 B.C. he proposed a corn law and
47 VII | man is very long because he has devoted wholly to himself
48 VII | to himself whatever time he has had. None of it lay
49 VII | guarding it most grudgingly, he found nothing that was worthy
50 VII | prayed for the fasces,17 when he attains them, desires to
51 VII | that stretches farther than he can be heard, yet he says: "
52 VII | than he can be heard, yet he says: "When will vacation
53 VII | weariness of the present. But he who bestows all of his time
54 VII | nothing taken from it, and he will take any addition as
55 VII | filled takes the food which he does not desire and yet
56 VII | man has lived long because he has grey hairs or wrinkles;
57 VII | grey hairs or wrinkles; he has not lived long—he has
58 VII | wrinkles; he has not lived long—he has existed long. For what
59 VII | fierce storm as soon as he left harbour, and, swept
60 VII | course? Not much voyaging did he have, but much tossing about. ~
61 IX | Why do you delay," says he, "Why are you idle? Unless
62 IX | infinite delay, in that he says, not "the fairest age,"
63 IX | beguiles the traveller, and he finds that he has reached
64 IX | traveller, and he finds that he has reached the end of his
65 IX | end of his journey before he was aware that he was approaching
66 IX | before he was aware that he was approaching it, just
67 X | which is never deceived; he who has ambitiously coveted,
68 XII | too careless, just as if he were shearing a real man!
69 XII | habits of human life—when he had been lifted by hands
70 XII | who does not know whether he is sitting, knows whether
71 XII | is sitting, knows whether he is alive, whether he sees,
72 XII | whether he is alive, whether he sees, whether he is at leisure?
73 XII | whether he sees, whether he is at leisure? I find it
74 XII | whether I pity him more if he really did not know, or
75 XII | really did not know, or if he pretended not to know this.
76 XII | despicable to know what he is doing. After this imagine
77 XII | is so lost in luxury that he takes another's word as
78 XII | another's word as to whether he is sitting down! This man,
79 XII | to him a different term—he is sick, nay, he is dead;
80 XII | different term—he is sick, nay, he is dead; that man is at
81 XII | alive, who, in order that he may know the postures of
82 XII | someone to tell him—how can he be the master of any of
83 XIII | this was the very reason he was surnamed Caudex, because
84 XIII | them in a mimic battle? He, a leader of the state and
85 XIII | cast upon our minds! When he was casting so many troops
86 XIII | under a different sky, when he was proclaiming war between
87 XIII | creatures so ill matched, when he was shedding so much blood
88 XIII | be forced to shed more. he then believed that he was
89 XIII | more. he then believed that he was beyond the power of
90 XIII | related that Metellus, when he triumphed after his victory
91 XIII | used to say that at times he was doubtful whether it
92 XIV | devoted to himself than when he came, no one of these will
93 XV | himself as a client to these! He will have friends from whom
94 XV | will have friends from whom he may seek counsel on matters
95 XV | matters great and small, whom he may consult every day about
96 XV | about himself, from whom he may hear truth without insult,
97 XV | and after whose likeness he may fashion himself. ~ We
98 XV | therefore, has wide range, and he is not confined by the same
99 XV | bounds that shut others in. He alone is freed from the
100 XV | some time passed by? This he embraces by recollection.
101 XV | recollection. Is time present? This he uses. Is it still to come?
102 XV | Is it still to come? This he anticipates. He makes his
103 XV | come? This he anticipates. He makes his life long by combining
104 XVII | but simply its measure,35 he shed copious tears because
105 XVII | army would be alive.36 But he who wept was to bring upon
106 XVII | for whose hundredth year he had such fear. And why is
107 XVII | man ceased to be a judge? He becomes president of a court.
108 XVII | president of a court. Has he become infirm in managing
109 XVII | property of others at a salary? He is perplexed by caring for
110 XVII | end of his dictatorship? He will be called back to it
111 XVII | the Carthaginians before he is ripe for so great an
112 XVII | surety for his brother's, did he not stand in his own way,
113 XVII | not stand in his own way, he would be set beside Jove39;
114 XVII(38)| was announced to him while he was ploughing his own fields. ~~
115 XVII | and, when as a young man he had scorned honours that
116 XVII | the gods, at length, when he is old, his ambition will
117 XVII(39)| He did not allow his statue
118 XVII(40)| Disgusted with politics, he died in exile at Liternum. ~~
119 XVIII | have any feeling) because he knew that the Roman people
120 XVIII | seven or eight days while he was building his bridges
121 XX | endeavours. Shameful is he whose breath leaves him
122 XX | applause of an ignorant circle, he is pleading for some litigant
123 XX | stranger; disgraceful is he who, exhausted more quickly
124 XX | his duties; disgraceful is he who dies in the act of receiving
125 XX | assembled household as if he were dead. The whole house
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