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1 I | Nature, because we are born for a brief span of life, because
2 I(3) | An error for Theophrastus, as shown by
3 I | much shorter limit is fixed for man, though he is born for
4 I | for man, though he is born for so many and such great achievements.
5 I | so our life is amply long for him who orders it properly. ~
6 II | are tormented by a passion for war and are always either
7 II | really live is small."5 For all the rest of existence
8 II | anew and lift up our eyes for the discernment of truth,
9 II | himself, everyone is wasted for the sake of another. Ask
10 II | to count anyone in debt for such services, seeing that,
11 II | performed them, you had no wish for another's company, but could
12 III | you not ashamed to reserve for yourself only the remnant
13 III | of life, and to set apart for wisdom only that time which
14 IV | remarks in which they long for leisure, acclaim it, and
15 IV | from their high pinnacle; for, though nothing from without
16 IV | man, did not cease to pray for rest and to seek release
17 IV | that he would one day live for himself. In a letter addressed
18 IV | still far distant, my desire for that time most earnestly
19 IV | time most earnestly prayed for has led me to forestall
20 IV | somewhere. And so he longed for leisure, in the hope and
21 IV | of which he found relief for his labours. This was the
22 V | towering over all others. For what can possibly be above
23 VI | Gracchi, seeing no way out for his policy, which he could
24 VI | a holiday even as a boy. For, while he was still a ward
25 VI | And so it was too late for him to complain that he
26 VI | he died by his own hand; for he fell from a sudden wound
27 VI | expressed their loathing for every act of their years,
28 VI | neither themselves nor others. For when they have vented their
29 VI | escapes from you quickly; for you do not seize it, you
30 VII | also those who have time for nothing but wine and lust;
31 VII | nothing but wine and lust; for none have more shameful
32 VII(14)| life that they take no time for philosophy. ~~
33 VII | bail, how much by banquets—for even these have now become
34 VII | the control of another, for, guarding it most grudgingly,
35 VII | to be taken in exchange for his time. And so that man
36 VII | And there is no reason for you to suppose that these
37 VII | who is shamming sickness for the purpose of exciting
38 VII | the refuse. have been left for you. That man who had prayed
39 VII | That man who had prayed for the fasces,17 when he attains
40 VII | suffers from a yearning for the future and a weariness
41 VII | his last, neither longs for nor fears the morrow. For
42 VII | for nor fears the morrow. For what new pleasure is there
43 VII | And so there is no reason for you to think that any man
44 VII | long—he has existed long. For what if you should think
45 VIII | the object of the request for time, neither of them on
46 VIII | the sight of the eyes, and for this reason it is counted
47 VIII | pensions and doles, and for these they hire out their
48 VIII | Yet there is no reason for you to suppose that these
49 VIII | precious a thing time is; for to those whom they love
50 VIII | meanwhile death will be at hand, for which, willy nilly, you
51 IX | there, then, any doubt that for hapless mortals, that is,
52 IX | hapless mortals, that is, for men who are engrossed, the
53 IX | unprepared and unarmed, for they have made no provision
54 IX | they have made no provision for it; they have stumbled upon
55 X | sophistry is not serviceable, for the passions must be, not
56 X | them nay be censured, each for his own particular fault,
57 X | doubtful, the past is certain. For the last is the one over
58 X | are engrossed lose this; for they have no time to look
59 X | given; if there is nothing for it to settle upon, it passes
60 X | there seems to be none; for it is always in motion,
61 XI | men beg in their prayers for the addition of a few more
62 XI | uselessly they have striven for things which they did not
63 XI | all their toil has gone for nothing. But for those whose
64 XI | has gone for nothing. But for those whose life is passed
65 XII | engrossed "? There is no reason for you to suppose that I mean
66 XII(23)| confiscated goods were put up for sale. ~~
67 XII | public wrestling-place (for, to our shame I we labour
68 XII | are punctual at the hours for their rides as if it were
69 XII(25)| For the technical meaning of
70 XII(26)| that were often censured for their indecencies. ~~
71 XIII | made a busy occupation. For instance, no one will have
72 XIII | But now this vain passion for learning useless things
73 XIII | among the leaders28 of old for the kindness of his heart,
74 XIII | is outside the pomerium for one of two reasons, either
75 XIII | or are of the same sort? For though you grant that they
76 XIII | though they pledge themselves for the truth of what they write,
77 XIV | at leisure who take time for philosophy, they alone really
78 XIV | they alone really live; for they are not content to
79 XIV | holy thoughts, were born for us; for us they have prepared
80 XIV | thoughts, were born for us; for us they have prepared a
81 XV | but increase the reverence for them, since envy works upon
82 XVI | neglect the present, and fear for the future have a life that
83 XVI | wretches perceive too late that for such a long while they have
84 XVI | they dread; they often pray for death because they fear
85 XVI | slowly until the time set for dinner arrives; for, whenever
86 XVI | set for dinner arrives; for, whenever their engrossments
87 XVI | time. And so they strive for something else to occupy
88 XVI | or when they are waiting for the appointed time of some
89 XVI | postponement of something they hope for seems long to them. Yet
90 XVI | shorter by their own fault; for they flee from one pleasure
91 XVI | this also that accounts for the madness of poets in
92 XVI | the length of the night. For what is it but to inflame
93 XVI | the nights which they pay for so dearly fail to seem all
94 XVII | was to destroy all those for whose hundredth year he
95 XVII | make still other prayers. For everything that comes to
96 XVII | candidates? We begin to canvass for others. Have we got rid
97 XVII | He is perplexed by caring for his own wealth. Have the
98 XVII | Carthaginians before he is ripe for so great an undertaking;
99 XVII | own consulship, the surety for his brother's, did he not
100 XVII | stubborn exile.40 Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking,
101 XVII | engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure, but never enjoy
102 XVIII | and, too much storm-tossed for the time you have lived,
103 XVIII | now some part of your time for yourself as well. And I
104 XVIII | and had enough food left for at any rate seven or eight
105 XVIII | reason, you may be sure. For certain maladies must be
106 XX | that they have but toiled for an inscription on a tomb;
107 XX | ignorant circle, he is pleading for some litigant who is the
108 XX | it really such pleasure for a man to die in harness?
109 XX | same feeling; their desire for their labour lasts longer
110 XX | sixtieth; it is more difficult for men to obtain leisure from
111 XX | men, indeed, even arrange for things that lie beyond life—
112 XX | of public works and gifts for their funeral-pyres and
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