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1 I | five or ten lifetimes,4 but that a much shorter limit
2 I | have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it.
3 I | of it is well invested. But when it is squandered in
4 I | we receive is not short, but we make it so, nor do we
5 I | we have any lack of it, but are wasteful of it. Just
6 II | how to use it, is long. But one man is possessed by
7 II | to direct their course, but Fate takes them unawares
8 II | of existence is not life, but merely time. Vices beset
9 II | the discernment of truth, but they keep us down when once
10 II | they wished an audience! But can anyone have the hardihood
11 II | you to appear at his side; but you never deign to look
12 II | wish for another's company, but could not endure your own. ~
13 II(6) | undertook the actual defense, but one who by his presence
14 III(7)| his season" (Job v. 26); but he is still unripe. ~~
15 IV | glory, I find these words: "But these matters can be shown
16 V | he was "half a prisoner." But, in very truth, never will
17 VI | testimony against themselves; but by these complaints they
18 VI | swiftest thing in the world, but you allow it to slip away
19 VII | VII. But among the worst I count
20 VII | who have time for nothing but wine and lust; for none
21 VII | sin in more manly fashion. But those who are plunged into
22 VII | in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that
23 VII | that man had time enough, but those who have been robbed
24 VII | list, not of his friends, but of his retinue? Check off,
25 VII | weariness of the present. But he who bestows all of his
26 VII | Something may be added to it, but nothing taken from it, and
27 VII | much voyaging did he have, but much tossing about. ~
28 VIII | precious thing in the world; but they are blind to it because
29 VIII | labour or service or effort. But no one sets a value on time;
30 VIII | lavishly as if it cost nothing. But see how these same people
31 VIII | inconsistency of their feelings. But if each one could have the
32 VIII | matter how small it may be; but that must be guarded more
33 VIII | it, without realizing it; but the result of their giving
34 VIII | years of their dear ones. But the very thing they do not
35 IX | not "the fairest age," but "the fairest day." Why,
36 X | men find life very short. But Fabianus,20 who was none
37 X | philosophers of to-day, but one of the genuine and old-fashioned
38 X | passions must be, not nipped, but crushed. Yet, in order that
39 X | back under any man's power. But men who are engrossed lose
40 X | time, and each by minutes; but all the days of past time
41 X | all the parts of its life; but the minds of the engrossed,
42 XI | deceived Fate at the same time. But when at last some infirmity
43 XI | toil has gone for nothing. But for those whose life is
44 XII | living, not in leisure, but in busy idleness.24 Would
45 XII | These have not leisure, but idle occupation. And their
46 XII | forgetfulness of many things, but they also pretend forgetfulness
47 XII | perception of his leisure. But this other who is half alive,
48 XIII | of a bore than a scholar. But now this vain passion for
49 XIII | too may find some excuse—but does it serve any useful
50 XIII | beyond the power of Nature. But later this same man, betrayed
51 XIII | boast his surname30 was. ~ But to return to the point from
52 XIII | the acquisition of Italian but never of provincial, territory.
53 XIV | them a thousand times! ~ But we may fairly say that they
54 XV | these will force you to die, but all will teach you how to
55 XV | will wear out your years, but each will add his own years
56 XV | inherit not merely their name, but even their property, which
57 XV | not tear down and remove. But the works which philosophy
58 XV | each succeeding age will but increase the reverence for
59 XVI | XVI. But those who forget the past,
60 XVI | days are not long to them, but hateful; yet, on the other
61 XVI | the night. For what is it but to inflame our vices to
62 XVII | could not grasp its number but simply its measure,35 he
63 XVII | mighty army would be alive.36 But he who wept was to bring
64 XVII | not rest on stable causes, but are perturbed as groundlessly
65 XVII | groundlessly as they are born. But of what sort do you think
66 XVII | end of their wretchedness, but change the cause. Have we
67 XVII | would be set beside Jove39; but the discord of civilians
68 XVII | always pray for leisure, but never enjoy it. ~
69 XVIII | difficult to avoid hatred; but nevertheless believe me,
70 XVIII | that is indeed honourable but hardly adapted to the happy
71 XVIII | and painstaking industry. But plodding oxen are much more
72 XIX | are engrossed is wretched, but most wretched is the condition
73 XX | unhappy thought that they have but toiled for an inscription
74 XX | and ostentatious funerals. But, in very truth, the funerals
75 XX | as though they had lived but the tiniest span. ~~~~
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