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1 III | possess it. No one is to be found who is willing to
2 III | in which it is right to be miserly, they show themselves
3 III | will suffer your course to be just as you plan it? Are
4 III | only that time which cannot be devoted to any business?
5 IV | desire at times, if it could be with safety, to descend
6 IV | that his rest would not be devoid of dignity nor inconsistent
7 IV | But these matters can be shown better by deeds than
8 IV | league with an Antony.10 When be had cut away these ulcers11
9 V | it from destruction, to be at last swept away, unable
10 V | away, unable as he was to be restful in prosperity or
11 V | lowly a term, never will he be half a prisoner—he who always
12 V | others. For what can possibly be above him who is above Fortune? ~
13 VI | it was timely. ~ It would be superfluous to mention more
14 VI | superfluous and that could be replaced. ~
15 VII | that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by
16 VII | allow any of his time to be filched from him, and it
17 VII | nothing that was worthy to be taken in exchange for his
18 VII | over: "When will this year be over!" That man gives games,18
19 VII | now says: "When shall I be rid of them?" That advocate
20 VII | stretches farther than he can be heard, yet he says: "When
21 VII | found safety. Something may be added to it, but nothing
22 VIII | how alarmed those would be who saw only a few remaining,
23 VIII | sparing of them would they be! And yet it is easy to dispense
24 VIII | matter how small it may be; but that must be guarded
25 VIII | it may be; but that must be guarded more carefully which
26 VIII | it delay. And what will be the result? You have been
27 VIII | by; meanwhile death will be at hand, for which, willy
28 IX | IX. Can anything be sillier than the point of
29 IX | engaged in order that they may be able to live better; they
30 X | that the battle-line must be turned by a bold attack,
31 X | serviceable, for the passions must be, not nipped, but crushed.
32 X | the victims of them nay be censured, each for his own
33 X | fault, I say that they must be instructed, not merely wept
34 X | which is, that which will be. Of these the present time
35 X | is the one which cannot be brought back under any man'
36 X | disease; this can neither be troubled nor be snatched
37 X | neither be troubled nor be snatched away—it is an everlasting
38 X | that to some there seems to be none; for it is always in
39 X | hurries on; it ceases to be before it has come, and
40 X | so brief that it cannot be grasped, and even this is
41 XI | business, why should it not be ample? None of it is assigned
42 XII | safe? Who would not rather be well barbered than upright?
43 XII | movement Nature designed to be straightforward, into the
44 XII | someone to tell him—how can he be the master of any of his
45 XIII | XIII. It would be tedious to mention all the
46 XIII | to the state; there will be no profit in such knowledge,
47 XIII | surname Messana because be had transferred the name
48 XIII | you will permit someone to be interested also in this—
49 XIII | is not enough! Let them be crushed by animals of monstrous
50 XIII | monstrous bulk! Better would it be that these things pass into
51 XIII | man should learn them and be jealous of an act that was
52 XIII | who itself was soon to be forced to shed more. he
53 XIII | twenty captured elephants to be led before his car; that
54 XIII | still whose mistakes will be made fewer by such stories?
55 XIV | they are not content to be good guardians of their
56 XIV | desires, how few will they be able to see? How many will
57 XIV | see? How many will there be who either from sleep or
58 XIV | will rush by, pretending to be in a hurry! How many will
59 XIV | day. No one of these will be "not at home," no one of
60 XV | whatever you wish; it will be no fault of theirs if you
61 XV | men by chance; yet we may be the sons of whomsoever we
62 XV | one into which you wish to be adopted; you will inherit
63 XV | property, which there will be no need to guard in a mean
64 XV | philosophy has consecrated cannot be harmed; no age will destroy
65 XVII | such a mighty army would be alive.36 But he who wept
66 XVII | must the life of those be who work hard to gain what
67 XVII | judge. Has a man ceased to be a judge? He becomes president
68 XVII | his dictatorship? He will be called back to it from the
69 XVII | in his own way, he would be set beside Jove39; but the
70 XVII(39)| not allow his statue to be placed in the Capitol. ~~
71 XVII | Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of
72 XVIII | aiming at this—that it might be safe to entrust many thousand
73 XVIII | and more lofty. There will be no lack of men of tested
74 XVIII | with good reason, you may be sure. For certain maladies
75 XVIII | For certain maladies must be treated while the patient
76 XX | act, ordered himself to be laid out on his bed and
77 XX | laid out on his bed and to be mourned by the assembled
78 XX | body, they judge old age to be a hardship on no other score
79 XX | funerals of such men ought to be conducted by the light of
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