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1 II | known by heart, and you will see that these are the marks
2 III | themselves even lead in those who will eventually possess it. No
3 III | lain idle and unused; you will see that you have fewer
4 III | yourself was left to you; you will perceive that you are dying
5 III | desires of immortals. You will hear many men saying: "After
6 III | have you that your life will last longer? Who will suffer
7 III | life will last longer? Who will suffer your course to be
8 IV | IV. You will see that the most powerful
9 V | But, in very truth, never will the wise man resort to so
10 V | to so lowly a term, never will he be half a prisoner—he
11 VI | limit of a thousand years, will shrink into the merest span;
12 VI | merest span; your vices will swallow up any amount of
13 VII | matter of business—, and you will see how their interests,
14 VII | learn how to live, and—what will perhaps make you wonder
15 VII | their loss. Indeed, you will hear many of those who are
16 VII | the days of your life; you will see that very few, and those
17 VII | says over and over: "When will this year be over!" That
18 VII | heard, yet he says: "When will vacation time come?" Everyone
19 VII | nothing taken from it, and he will take any addition as the
20 VIII | guarded more carefully which will fail you know not when. ~
21 VIII | is bearable. Yet no one will bring back the years, no
22 VIII | bring back the years, no one will bestow you once more on
23 VIII | once more on yourself. Life will follow the path it started
24 VIII | path it started upon, and will neither reverse nor check
25 VIII | nor check its course; it will make no noise, it will not
26 VIII | it will make no noise, it will not remind you of its swiftness.
27 VIII | its swiftness. Silent it will glide on; it will not prolong
28 VIII | Silent it will glide on; it will not prolong itself at the
29 VIII | on its first day, so it will run; nowhere will it turn
30 VIII | so it will run; nowhere will it turn aside, nowhere will
31 VIII | will it turn aside, nowhere will it delay. And what will
32 VIII | will it delay. And what will be the result? You have
33 VIII | hastens by; meanwhile death will be at hand, for which, willy
34 IX | though you seize it, it still will flee; therefore you must
35 IX | torrent that rushes by and will not always flow, you must
36 X | separate proofs, many arguments will occur to me by which I could
37 X | that which is, that which will be. Of these the present
38 X | all the days of past time will appear when you bid them,
39 X | when you bid them, they will suffer you to behold them
40 X | them and keep them at your will—a thing which those who
41 XI | really lived, and that they will live henceforth in leisure
42 XI | shall come, the wise man will not hesitate to go to meet
43 XII | is disreputable and that will one day fester. Even the
44 XIII | occupation. For instance, no one will have any doubt that those
45 XIII | services to the state; there will be no profit in such knowledge,
46 XIII | popular speech. Perhaps you will permit someone to be interested
47 XIII | write, still whose mistakes will be made fewer by such stories?
48 XIII | stories? Whose passions will they restrain? Whom will
49 XIII | will they restrain? Whom will they make more brave, whom
50 XIV | varied desires, how few will they be able to see? How
51 XIV | be able to see? How many will there be who either from
52 XIV | self-indulgence or rudeness will keep them out! How many
53 XIV | them with long waiting, will rush by, pretending to be
54 XIV | be in a hurry! How many will avoid passing out through
55 XIV | crowded with clients, and will make their escape through
56 XIV | every day. No one of these will be "not at home," no one
57 XIV | at home," no one of these will fail to have his visitor
58 XIV | he came, no one of these will allow anyone to leave him
59 XV | XV. No one of these will force you to die, but all
60 XV | force you to die, but all will teach you how to die; no
61 XV | to die; no one of these will wear out your years, but
62 XV | out your years, but each will add his own years to yours;
63 XV | conversations with no one of these will bring you peril, the friendship
64 XV | the friendship of none will endanger your life, the
65 XV | life, the courting of none will tax your purse. From them
66 XV | your purse. From them you will take whatever you wish;
67 XV | take whatever you wish; it will be no fault of theirs if
68 XV | as a client to these! He will have friends from whom he
69 XV | the sons of whomsoever we will. Households there are of
70 XV | wish to be adopted; you will inherit not merely their
71 XV | their property, which there will be no need to guard in a
72 XV | it with, the greater it will become. These will open
73 XV | greater it will become. These will open to you the path to
74 XV | path to immortality, and will raise you to a height from
75 XV | cannot be harmed; no age will destroy them, no age reduce
76 XV | and each succeeding age will but increase the reverence
77 XVII | comes over them: How long will these things last?" This
78 XVII | no account of time that will never more return. New engrossments
79 XVII | of his dictatorship? He will be called back to it from
80 XVII | from the plough. Scipio will go against the Carthaginians
81 XVII | the discord of civilians will vex their preserver, and,
82 XVII | he is old, his ambition will lake delight in stubborn
83 XVII | exile.40 Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether
84 XVIII| unceasing proofs—try how it will behave in leisure. The greater
85 XVIII| That is not to rest; you will find far greater works than
86 XVIII| greater and more lofty. There will be no lack of men of tested
87 XX | the price of life. They will waste all their years, in
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