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1 I | achievements. It is not that we have a short space of time, but
2 I | we make it so, nor do we have any lack of it, but are
3 II | that are ever new; some have no fixed principle by which
4 II | keep us down when once they have overwhelmed us and we are
5 II | audience! But can anyone have the hardihood to complain
6 III | and say: "I see that you have reached the farthest limit
7 III | Add the diseases which we have caused by our own acts,
8 III | unused; you will see that you have fewer years to your credit
9 III | fixed plan, how few days have passed as you had intended,
10 III | unperturbed, what work you have achieved in so long a life,
11 III | so long a life, how many have robbed you of life when
12 III | is perhaps your last. You have all the fears of mortals
13 III | And what guarantee, pray, have you that your life will
14 III | at a point to which few have attained! ~
15 VI | started on, he is said to have complained bitterly against
16 VI | from the cradle, and to have exclaimed that he was the
17 VI | destined to go? One might have known that such precocious
18 VI | them the happiest of men, have expressed their loathing
19 VI | and with their own lips have given true testimony against
20 VI | nor others. For when they have vented their feelings in
21 VI | amount of time. The space you have, which reason can prolong,
22 VII | worst I count also those who have time for nothing but wine
23 VII | wine and lust; for none have more shameful engrossments.14
24 VII | banquets—for even these have now become a matter of business—,
25 VII | everywhere; some of them we have seen that mere boys have
26 VII | have seen that mere boys have mastered so thoroughly that
27 VII | business, and pleasures, have made it their one aim up
28 VII | the greater number of them have departed from life confessing
29 VII | time enough, but those who have been robbed of much of their
30 VII | their life by the public, have necessarily had too little
31 VII | other glorious miseries: "I have no chance to live." Of course
32 VII | to live." Of course you have no chance! All those who
33 VII(15)| various types of occupati that have been sketchily presented.
34 VII | few, and those the refuse. have been left for you. That
35 VII | They are all known, all have been enjoyed to the full.
36 VII | Not much voyaging did he have, but much tossing about. ~
37 VIII | feelings. But if each one could have the number of his future
38 VIII | the case of the years that have passed, how alarmed those
39 VIII | love most devotedly they have a habit of saying that they
40 VIII | will be the result? You have been engrossed, life hastens
41 IX | unprepared and unarmed, for they have made no provision for it;
42 IX | no provision for it; they have stumbled upon it suddenly
43 X | engrossed lose this; for they have no time to look back upon
44 X | and even if they should have, it is not pleasant to recall
45 X | momentary pleasure, do not have the courage to revert to
46 X | past, unless all his acts have been submitted to the censorship
47 X | those who are engrossed have no time to do. The mind
48 XI | They cry out that they have been fools, because they
49 XI | been fools, because they have not really lived, and that
50 XI | reflect how uselessly they have striven for things which
51 XII | those whom the dogs22 that have at length been let in drive
52 XII | solitude, although they have withdrawn from all others,
53 XII | of these would not rather have the state disordered than
54 XII | is not more concerned to have his head trim rather than
55 XII | beat time to some song they have in their head, who are overheard
56 XII | humming a tune when they have been summoned to serious,
57 XII | melancholy, matters? These have not leisure, but idle occupation.
58 XII | class either—the men who have themselves borne hither
59 XIII | all the different men who have spent the whole of their
60 XIII | For instance, no one will have any doubt that those are
61 XIII | Doubtless this too may have some point—the fact that
62 XIII | to the point from which I have digressed, and to show that
63 XIV | own; all the years that have gone ore them are an addition
64 XIV | born for us; for us they have prepared a way of life.
65 XIV | things most beautiful that have been wrested from darkness
66 XIV | age are we shut out, we have access to all ages, and
67 XIV | others no rest, when they have fully indulged their madness,
68 XIV | their madness, when they have every day crossed everybody'
69 XIV | everybody's threshold, and have left no open door unvisited,
70 XIV | door unvisited, when they have carried around their venal
71 XIV | How many who, when they have tortured them with long
72 XIV | of life who shall wish to have Zeno, Pythagoras, Democritus,
73 XIV | one of these will fail to have his visitor leave more happy
74 XV | client to these! He will have friends from whom he may
75 XV | fell to our lot, that they have been given to men by chance;
76 XVI | and fear for the future have a life that is very brief
77 XVI | and troubled; when they have reached the end of it, the
78 XVI | for such a long while they have been busied in doing nothing.
79 XVI | sometimes invoke death, have you any reason to think
80 XVI | they fear it. And, too, you have no reason to think that
81 XVII | they possessed, and they have not so much delighted in
82 XVII | of their fortune, as they have viewed with terror the end
83 XVII | behalf of the prayers that have turned out well we must
84 XVII | with anxiety hold what they have attained; meanwhile they
85 XVII | wretchedness, but change the cause. Have we been tormented by our
86 XVII | others take more of our time. Have we ceased to labour as candidates?
87 XVII | begin to canvass for others. Have we got rid of the troubles
88 XVII | caring for his own wealth. Have the barracks37 set Marius
89 XVIII | storm-tossed for the time you have lived, at length withdraw
90 XVIII | Think of how many waves you have encountered, how many storms,
91 XVIII | storms, on the one hand, you have sustained in private life,
92 XVIII | many, on the other, you have brought upon yourself in
93 XVIII | works than all those you have hitherto performed so energetically,
94 XVIII | believe me, it is better to have knowledge of the ledger
95 XVIII | besides, how much worry you have in subjecting yourself to
96 XVIII | most deeply (if the dead have any feeling) because he
97 XVIII | follows famine. What then must have been the feeling of those
98 XX | in order that they may have one year reckoned by their
99 XX | ambition; some, when they have crawled up through a thousand
100 XX | to the crowning dignity, have been possessed by the unhappy
101 XX | unhappy thought that they have but toiled for an inscription
102 XX | inscription on a tomb; some who have come to extreme old age,
103 XX | hopes as if it were youth, have had it fail from sheer weakness
104 XX | in harness? Yet very many have the same feeling; their
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