Caput

 1 II   |          kindly; life, if you know how to use it, is long. But
 2 II   |   smothered by their blessings. To how many are riches a burden!
 3 II   |          are riches a burden! From how many do eloquence and the
 4 II   |           powers draw forth blood! How many are pale from constant
 5 II   |        from constant pleasures! To how many does the throng of
 6 III  |    distribute his money, yet among how many does each one of us
 7 III  |         make a reckoning. Consider how much of your time was taken
 8 III  |       taken up with a moneylender, how much with a mistress, how
 9 III  |          how much with a mistress, how much with a patron, how
10 III  |            how much with a patron, how much with a client, how
11 III  |            how much with a client, how much in wrangling with your
12 III  |          wrangling with your wife, how much in punishing your slaves,
13 III  |          in punishing your slaves, how much in rushing about the
14 III  |         you ever had a fixed plan, how few days have passed as
15 III  |        achieved in so long a life, how many have robbed you of
16 III  |           of what you were losing, how much was taken up in useless
17 III  |            allurements of society, how little of yourself was left
18 III  |          ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone
19 III  |           devoted to any business? How late it is to begin to live
20 IV   |       greatness. He had discovered how much sweat those blessings
21 IV   |   throughout all lands drew forth, how many secret worries they
22 V    |            or patient in adversity—how many times does he curse
23 V    |         though not without reason! How tearful the words he uses
24 VII  |            all these people,15 see how much time they give to accounts,
25 VII  |        time they give to accounts, how much to laying snares, how
26 VII  |         how much to laying snares, how much to fearing them, how
27 VII  |          how much to fearing them, how much to paying court, how
28 VII  |          how much to paying court, how much to being courted, how
29 VII  |         how much to being courted, how much is taken up in giving
30 VII  |          giving or receiving bail, how much by banquets—for even
31 VII  |        business—, and you will see how their interests, whether
32 VII  |         the whole of life to learn how to live, and—what will perhaps
33 VII  |         the whole of life to learn how to die. Many very great
34 VII  |           very end of life to know how to live; yet the greater
35 VII  |        away from your own self. Of how many days has that defendant
36 VII  |           defendant robbed you? Of how many that candidate? Of
37 VII  |            many that candidate? Of how many that old woman wearied
38 VII  |            burying her heirs?16 Of how many that man who is shamming
39 VII  |          of the legacy-hunters? Of how many that very powerful
40 VIII |           it cost nothing. But see how these same people clasp
41 VIII |            death draws nearer, see how ready they are, if threatened
42 VIII |            years that have passed, how alarmed those would be who
43 VIII |          saw only a few remaining, how sparing of them would they
44 VIII |         that is assured, no matter how small it may be; but that
45 VIII |           these people do not know how precious a thing time is;
46 IX   | uncertainty; live straightway! See how the greatest of bards cries
47 X    |            does no good, no matter how much water you pour into
48 X    |        time—it makes no difference how much is given; if there
49 XI   |          word, do you want to know how they do not "live long"?
50 XI   |            do not "live long"? See how eager they are to live long!
51 XI   |          then at last they reflect how uselessly they have striven
52 XI   |            they did not enjoy, and how all their toil has gone
53 XII  |          that toward the forehead? How angry they get if the barber
54 XII  |          were shearing a real man! How they flare up if any of
55 XII  |      unoccupied hours, since I see how anxiously they set out their
56 XII  |            out their silver plate, how diligently they tie up the
57 XII  |           their pretty slave-boys, how breathlessly they watch
58 XII  |    portions all according to rule, how carefully unhappy little
59 XII  |          needs someone to tell him—how can he be the master of
60 XIV  |            by such varied desires, how few will they be able to
61 XIV  |          will they be able to see? How many will there be who either
62 XIV  |       rudeness will keep them out! How many who, when they have
63 XIV  |       pretending to be in a hurry! How many will avoid passing
64 XIV  |           deceive than to exclude. How many, still half asleep
65 XV   |             but all will teach you how to die; no one of these
66 XVI  |           do, and they do not know how to dispose of their leisure
67 XVI  |            yet, on the other hand, how scanty seem the nights which
68 XVII |           thought comes over them: How long will these things last?"
69 XVIII|         peaceful harbour. Think of how many waves you have encountered,
70 XVIII|        waves you have encountered, how many storms, on the one
71 XVIII|         sustained in private life, how many, on the other, you
72 XVIII|           and unceasing proofs—try how it will behave in leisure.
73 XVIII|            pack? Reflect, besides, how much worry you have in subjecting
74 XIX  |      hating. If these wish to know how short their life is, let
75 XIX  |          life is, let them reflect how small a part of it is their