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1 I | spitefulness of Nature, because we are born for a brief span of
2 I | at an end just when they are getting ready to live. Nor
3 I | have any lack of it, but are wasteful of it. Just as
4 II | toilsome devotion to tasks that are useless; one man is besotted
5 II | by the hope of gain; some are tormented by a passion for
6 II | by a passion for war and are always either bent upon
7 II | about their own; some there are who are worn out by voluntary
8 II | own; some there are who are worn out by voluntary servitude
9 II | attendance upon the great; many are kept busy either in the
10 II | inconstant and dissatisfied, are plunged by their fickleness
11 II | fickleness into plans that are ever new; some have no fixed
12 II | have overwhelmed us and we are chained to lust. Their victims
13 II | chained to lust. Their victims are never allowed to return
14 II | the storm is past, they are tossed about, and no rest
15 II | the wretches whose evils are admitted? Look at those
16 II | men flock to behold; they are smothered by their blessings.
17 II | their blessings. To how many are riches a burden! From how
18 II | draw forth blood! How many are pale from constant pleasures!
19 II | about the men whose names are known by heart, and you
20 II | you will see that these are the marks that distinguish
21 II | After all, no matter who you are, the great man does sometimes
22 III | guarding their fortune men are often closefisted, yet,
23 III | limit of human life, you are pressing hard upon your
24 III | your hundredth year, or are even beyond it; come now,
25 III | you will perceive that you are dying before your season!"7
26 III | be just as you plan it? Are you not ashamed to reserve
27 VII | The others, even if they are possessed by the empty dream
28 VII | should cite to me the men who are avaricious, the men who
29 VII | avaricious, the men who are wrathful, whether busied
30 VII | manly fashion. But those who are plunged into the pleasures
31 VII(14) | term designating those who are so absorbed in the interests
32 VII | mind, when its interests are divided, takes in nothing
33 VII | Of the other arts there are many teachers everywhere;
34 VII | suppose that these people are not sometimes aware of their
35 VII | will hear many of those who are burdened by great prosperity
36 VII | hour can now bring? They are all known, all have been
37 VIII | thing in the world; but they are blind to it because it is
38 VIII | nearer, see how ready they are, if threatened with capital
39 VIII | habit of saying that they are ready to give them a part
40 VIII | not know is whether they are suffering loss; therefore,
41 IX | you aim? All things that are still to come lie in uncertainty;
42 IX | you delay," says he, "Why are you idle? Unless you seize
43 IX | mortals, that is, for men who are engrossed, the fairest day
44 IX | surprises them while their minds are still childish, and they
45 IX | waking or sleeping; those who are engrossed become aware of
46 X | man's power. But men who are engrossed lose this; for
47 X | must view with regret. They are, therefore, unwilling to
48 X | a thing which those who are engrossed have no time to
49 X | The engrossed, therefore, are concerned with present time
50 X | them, distracted as they are among many things. ~
51 XI | long"? See how eager they are to live long! Decrepit old
52 XI | they pretend that they are younger than they are; they
53 XI | they are younger than they are; they comfort themselves
54 XI | themselves with a falsehood, and are as pleased to deceive themselves
55 XI | they die, feeling that they are being dragged out of life,
56 XII | withdrawn from all others, they are themselves the source of
57 XII | we should say that these are living, not in leisure,
58 XII | we labour with vices that are not even Roman) watching
59 XII | would you say that those men are at leisure who pass many
60 XII | the barber's while they are being stripped of whatever
61 XII | either disarranged locks are restored to their place
62 XII | Would you say that these are at leisure who are occupied
63 XII | these are at leisure who are occupied with the comb and
64 XII | mirror? And what of those who are engaged in composing, hearing,
65 XII | some indolent tune, who are always snapping their fingers
66 XII | have in their head, who are overheard humming a tune
67 XII | with what skill the birds are carved into portions all
68 XII | sedan-chair and a litter, and are punctual at the hours for
69 XII | unlawful to omit them, who are reminded by someone else
70 XII | must dine; so enfeebled are they by the excessive lassitude
71 XII | themselves whether they are hungry! I hear that one
72 XII | to know this. They really are subject to forgetfulness
73 XIII | bodies in the sun. They are not unoccupied whose pleasures
74 XIII | unoccupied whose pleasures are made a busy occupation.
75 XIII | have any doubt that those are laborious triflers who spend
76 XIII | add nothing to real glory, are nevertheless concerned with
77 XIII | also the Tables of the Law are called codices,27 and, in
78 XIII | provisions up the Tiber are even to-day called codicariae.
79 XIII | death? That is not enough! Are they torn to pieces? That
80 XIII(29)| impressions of the occasion are recorded in Ad Fam. vii.
81 XIII | countless other reports that are either crammed with falsehood
82 XIII | crammed with falsehood or are of the same sort? For though
83 XIV | XIV. Of all men they alone are at leisure who take time
84 XIV | alone really live; for they are not content to be good guardians
85 XIV | that have gone ore them are an addition to their store.
86 XIV | to their store. Unless we are most ungrateful, all those
87 XIV | By other men's labours we are led to the sight of things
88 XIV | into light; from no age are we shut out, we have access
89 XIV | greeting to houses that are very far apart—out of a
90 XIV | fairly say that they alone are engaged in the true duties
91 XV | may fashion himself. ~ We are wont to say that it was
92 XV | we will. Households there are of noblest intellects; choose
93 XV | at hand, and things that are far off we are more free
94 XV | things that are far off we are more free to admire. The
95 XVI | long. In their folly they are harassed by shifting emotions
96 XVI | this is any proof that they are living a long time—the fact
97 XVI | engrossments fail them, they are restless because they are
98 XVI | are restless because they are left with nothing to do,
99 XVI | announced, or when they are waiting for the appointed
100 XVI | in one desire. Their days are not long to them, but hateful;
101 XVII | very pleasures of such men are uneasy and disquieted by
102 XVII | it that even their joys are uneasy from fear? Because
103 XVII | rest on stable causes, but are perturbed as groundlessly
104 XVII | as groundlessly as they are born. But of what sort do
105 XVII | do you think those times are which even by their own
106 XVII | by their own confession are wretched, since even the
107 XVII | even the joys by which they are exalted and lifted above
108 XVII | and lifted above mankind are by no means pure? All the
109 XVII | All the greatest blessings are a source of anxiety, and
110 XVIII | slumbers and the pleasures that are dear to the crowd. That
111 XVIII | industry. But plodding oxen are much more suited to carrying
112 XVIII | great burden; your dealings are with the belly of man. A
113 XIX | just the same whether you are concerned in having corn
114 XIX | lays us to rest When we are freed from the body; what
115 XIX | The condition of all who are engrossed is wretched, but
116 XIX | labour at engrossments that are not even their own, who
117 XIX | the pace of another, who are under orders in case of
118 XX | not envy him; those things are bought at the price of life.
119 XX | Meantime, while they rob and are being robbed, while they
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