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1 II | others or concerned about their own; some there are who
2 II | fortune or in complaining of their own; many, following no
3 II | dissatisfied, are plunged by their fickleness into plans that
4 II | principle by which to direct their course, but Fate takes them
5 II | we are chained to lust. Their victims are never allowed
6 II | never allowed to return to their true selves; if ever they
7 II | about, and no rest from their lusts abides. Think you
8 II | behold; they are smothered by their blessings. To how many are
9 II | daily straining to display their powers draw forth blood!
10 II | complain of the insolence of their superiors, because they
11 III | they adequately express their wonder at this dense darkness
12 III | not suffer anyone to seize their estates, and they rush to
13 III | dispute about the limit of their lands, yet they allow others
14 III | others to trespass upon their life—nay, they themselves
15 III | distribute his life! In guarding their fortune men are often closefisted,
16 IV | it, and prefer it to all their blessings. They desire at
17 IV | safety, to descend from their high pinnacle; for, though
18 IV | Not yet had he escaped their plots, when his daughter9
19 IV | themselves, others would grow in their place; just as in a body
20 VI | happiest of men, have expressed their loathing for every act of
21 VI | loathing for every act of their years, and with their own
22 VI | of their years, and with their own lips have given true
23 VI | For when they have vented their feelings in words, they
24 VI | words, they fall back into their usual round. Heaven knows!
25 VII | business—, and you will see how their interests, whether you call
26 VII | men, having laid aside all their encumbrances, having renounced
27 VII | pleasures, have made it their one aim up to the very end
28 VII | have been robbed of much of their life by the public, have
29 VII | are not sometimes aware of their loss. Indeed, you will hear
30 VII | at times in the midst of their throngs of clients, or their
31 VII | their throngs of clients, or their pleadings in court, or their
32 VII | their pleadings in court, or their other glorious miseries: "
33 VIII | indulgent. Both of them fix their eyes on the object of the
34 VIII | for these they hire out their labour or service or effort.
35 VIII | punishment, to spend all their possessions in order to
36 VIII | is the inconsistency of their feelings. But if each one
37 VIII | ready to give them a part of their own years. And they do give
38 VIII | realizing it; but the result of their giving is that they themselves
39 VIII | without adding to the years of their dear ones. But the very
40 IX | mean those who boast of their foresight? They keep themselves
41 IX | ready to live! They form their purposes with a view to
42 IX | age surprises them while their minds are still childish,
43 X | subject into heads with their separate proofs, many arguments
44 X | therefore, unwilling to direct their thoughts backward to ill-spent
45 X | and look behind. And so their life vanishes into an abyss;
46 XI | Decrepit old men beg in their prayers for the addition
47 XI | infirmity has reminded them of their mortality, in what terror
48 XI | did not enjoy, and how all their toil has gone for nothing.
49 XII | either gloriously crushed in their own crowd of followers,
50 XII | social duties call forth from their own homes to bump them against
51 XII | some men is engrossed; in their villa or on their couch,
52 XII | engrossed; in their villa or on their couch, in the midst of solitude,
53 XII | themselves the source of their own worry; we should say
54 XII | disarranged locks are restored to their place or thinning ones drawn
55 XII | they flare up if any of their mane is lopped off, if any
56 XII | who are always snapping their fingers as they beat time
57 XII | to some song they have in their head, who are overheard
58 XII | but idle occupation. And their banquets, Heaven knows!
59 XII | knows! I cannot reckon among their unoccupied hours, since
60 XII | how anxiously they set out their silver plate, how diligently
61 XII | they tie up the tunics of their pretty slave-boys, how breathlessly
62 XII | smooth-faced boys hurry to perform their duties, with what skill
63 XII | and to such an extent do their evils follow them into all
64 XII | punctual at the hours for their rides as if it were unlawful
65 XII | them as being proofs of their prosperity; it seems the
66 XII(26)| were often censured for their indecencies. ~~
67 XIII | have spent the whole of their life over chess or ball
68 XIII | or the practice of baking their bodies in the sun. They
69 XIII | laborious triflers who spend their time on useless literary
70 XIV | to be good guardians of their own lifetime only. They
71 XIV | They annex ever age to their own; all the years that
72 XIV | them are an addition to their store. Unless we are most
73 XIV | they have fully indulged their madness, when they have
74 XIV | they have carried around their venal greeting to houses
75 XIV | with clients, and will make their escape through some concealed
76 XIV | debauch, scarcely lifting their lips in the midst of a most
77 XIV | poor wretches, who break their own slumber33 in order to
78 XIV | Aristotle and Theophrastus, as their most intimate friends every
79 XV | will inherit not merely their name, but even their property,
80 XV | merely their name, but even their property, which there will
81 XVI | they find life long. In their folly they are harassed
82 XVI | dinner arrives; for, whenever their engrossments fail them,
83 XVI | not know how to dispose of their leisure or to drag out the
84 XVI | is made much shorter by their own fault; for they flee
85 XVI | remain fixed in one desire. Their days are not long to them,
86 XVI | the name of the gods as their sponsors, and to present
87 XVII | delighted in the greatness of their fortune, as they have viewed
88 XVII | wept was to bring upon them their fate, was to give some to
89 XVII | fate, was to give some to their doom on the sea, some on
90 XVII | And why is it that even their joys are uneasy from fear?
91 XVII | times are which even by their own confession are wretched,
92 XVII | They do not seek an end of their wretchedness, but change
93 XVII | discord of civilians will vex their preserver, and, when as
94 XVIII | ignorance; knowledge of their disease has caused the death
95 XIX | part, summons the stars to their proper changes—and ether
96 XIX | engrossments that are not even their own, who regulate their
97 XIX | their own, who regulate their sleep by that of another,
98 XIX | sleep by that of another, their walk by the pace of another,
99 XIX | these wish to know how short their life is, let them reflect
100 XIX | how small a part of it is their own. ~
101 XX | life. They will waste all their years, in order that they
102 XX | have one year reckoned by their name.44 Life has left some
103 XX | left some in the midst of their first struggles, before
104 XX | climb up to the height of their ambition; some, when they
105 XX | weakness in the midst of their great and shameless endeavours.
106 XX | many have the same feeling; their desire for their labour
107 XX | feeling; their desire for their labour lasts longer than
108 XX | labour lasts longer than their ability; they fight against
109 XX | make each other wretched, their life is without profit,
110 XX | public works and gifts for their funeral-pyres and ostentatious
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