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 1 I(1)    |       and is usually identified with the father of a certain
 2 I       | Aristotle,3 while expostulating with Nature, to enter an indictment
 3 II      |    useless; one man is besotted with wine, another is paralyzed
 4 II      |     greatest of poets delivered with all the seeming of an oracle: "
 5 III     |       of your time was taken up with a moneylender, how much
 6 III     |         a moneylender, how much with a mistress, how much with
 7 III     |       with a mistress, how much with a patron, how much with
 8 III     |         with a patron, how much with a client, how much in wrangling
 9 III     |   client, how much in wrangling with your wife, how much in punishing
10 IV      |        at times, if it could be with safety, to descend from
11 IV      |       even if vain, consolation with which he would gladden his
12 IV      |        dignity nor inconsistent with his former glory, I find
13 IV      |       to fear a woman in league with an Antony.10 When be had
14 IV(10)  |       by reason of his intrigue with the elder Julia. ~~
15 IV      |         these ulcers11 together with the limbs themselves, others
16 IV      |      body that was overburdened with blood, there was always
17 V       |         tossed to and fro along with the state and seeks to keep
18 VI      |     bold and energetic man, had with the support of a huge crowd
19 VI      |         act of their years, and with their own lips have given
20 VII     |        wrathful, whether busied with unjust hatreds or with unjust
21 VII     |   busied with unjust hatreds or with unjust wars, these all sin
22 VII     | followed by a man who is busied with many things—eloquence cannot,
23 VII     |         busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing
24 VII     |     many that old woman wearied with burying her heirs?16 Of
25 VII     |         and fills all the place with a great crowd that stretches
26 VIII    |         VIII. I am often filled with wonder when I see some men
27 VIII    |      given, nothing. Men trifle with the most precious thing
28 VIII    |         they are, if threatened with capital punishment, to spend
29 IX      |        They form their purposes with a view to the distant future;
30 IX      |        out, and, as if inspired with divine utterance, sings
31 IX      |          therefore you must vie with time's swiftness in the
32 IX      |         approaching it, just so with this unceasing and most
33 X       |    divide my subject into heads with their separate proofs, many
34 X       |      fight against the passions with main force, not with artifice,
35 X       |   passions with main force, not with artifice, and that the battle-line
36 X       |        something they must view with regret. They are, therefore,
37 X       |         receive and hold it, so with time—it makes no difference
38 X       |        therefore, are concerned with present time alone, and
39 X(21)   |      poured water into a vessel with a perforated bottom. ~~
40 XI      |         they comfort themselves with a falsehood, and are as
41 XI      |    hesitate to go to meet death with steady step. ~
42 XII     |       at leisure25 who arranges with finical care his Corinthian
43 XII     |        to our shame I we labour with vices that are not even
44 XII     |        leisure who are occupied with the comb and the mirror?
45 XII     |     from the hands of the cook, with what speed at a given signal
46 XII     |        to perform their duties, with what skill the birds are
47 XII     |         we can charge the mimes with neglect. To think that there
48 XIII    |      are nevertheless concerned with signal services to the state;
49 XIII    |         that are either crammed with falsehood or are of the
50 XIV     |       we may roam. We may argue with Socrates, we may doubt32
51 XIV     |        Socrates, we may doubt32 with Carneades, find peace with
52 XIV     |      with Carneades, find peace with Epicurus, overcome human
53 XIV     | Epicurus, overcome human nature with the Stoics, exceed it with
54 XIV     |      with the Stoics, exceed it with the Cynics. Since Nature
55 XIV     |        to enter into fellowship with every age, why should we
56 XIV     |         and surrender ourselves with all our soul to the past,
57 XIV     |         eternal, which we share with our betters? ~ Those who
58 XIV     |         they have tortured them with long waiting, will rush
59 XIV     |  through a hall that is crowded with clients, and will make their
60 XIV     |       allow anyone to leave him with empty hands; all mortals
61 XIV     |     hands; all mortals can meet with them by night or by day. ~
62 XV      |         to yours; conversations with no one of these will bring
63 XV      |       more persons you share it with, the greater it will become.
64 XVI     |  restless because they are left with nothing to do, and they
65 XVII    |    fortune, as they have viewed with terror the end to which
66 XVII    |      attain what they wish, and with anxiety hold what they have
67 XVII(37)|     soldier, is here synonymous with service in the army. ~~
68 XVII(40)|                       Disgusted with politics, he died in exile
69 XVIII   |       is most competent to cope with the greatest subjects, from
70 XVIII   |        such high-born creatures with a heavy pack? Reflect, besides,
71 XVIII   |       burden; your dealings are with the belly of man. A hungry
72 XVIII   |  bridges of boats42 and playing with the resources of the empire,
73 XVIII   |      empire, we were threatened with the worst evil that can
74 XVIII   |         the vitals of the state—with good reason, you may be
75 XIX     |        sacred and lofty studies with the purpose of discovering
76 XIX     |     blood is hot, we must enter with brisk step upon the better