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1 II | have no fixed principle by which to direct their course,
2 II | truth of that utterance which the greatest of poets delivered
3 II | the waters of the deep sea which continue to heave even after
4 III | case of the one thing in which it is right to be miserly,
5 III | duties. Add the diseases which we have caused by our own
6 III | though all the while that day which you bestow on some person
7 III | for wisdom only that time which cannot be devoted to any
8 III | begin life at a point to which few have attained! ~
9 IV | men let drop remarks in which they long for leisure, acclaim
10 IV | if vain, consolation with which he would gladden his labours—
11 IV | addressed to the senate, in which he had promised that his
12 IV | happily of that future day on which he should lay aside his
13 IV | the hope and thought of which he found relief for his
14 V | very consulship of his, which he had lauded without end,
15 V | to other statements, in which he bewails his former life
16 VI | way out for his policy, which he could neither carry through
17 VI | time. The space you have, which reason can prolong, although
18 VII | and filled takes the food which he does not desire and yet
19 VIII | be guarded more carefully which will fail you know not when. ~
20 VIII | death will be at hand, for which, willy nilly, you must find
21 IX | to living is expectancy, which depends upon the morrow
22 IX | to-day. You dispose of that which lies in the hands of Fortune,
23 IX | Fortune, you let go that which lies in your own. Whither
24 IX | most swift journey of life, which we make at the same pace
25 X | arguments will occur to me by which I could prove that busy
26 X | into three periods—that which has been, that which is,
27 X | that which has been, that which is, that which will be.
28 X | been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present
29 X | the last is the one over which Fortune has lost control,
30 X | lost control, is the one which cannot be brought back under
31 X | the past, even the vices which were disguised under some
32 X | censorship of his conscience, which is never deceived; he who
33 X | dominion of Fortune, the part which is disquieted by no want,
34 X | them at your will—a thing which those who are engrossed
35 XI | have striven for things which they did not enjoy, and
36 XII(23)| Literally, "spear," which was stuck in the ground
37 XIII | other matters of this stamp, which, if you keep them to yourself,
38 XIII | return to the point from which I have digressed, and to
39 XIII | extended the pomerium,31 which in old times it was customary
40 XIII | because that was the place to which the plebeians had seceded,
41 XIV | stretch of time through which we may roam. We may argue
42 XIV | all our soul to the past, which is boundless, which is eternal,
43 XIV | past, which is boundless, which is eternal, which we share
44 XIV | boundless, which is eternal, which we share with our betters? ~
45 XV | intellects; choose the one into which you wish to be adopted;
46 XV | but even their property, which there will be no need to
47 XV | raise you to a height from which no one is cast down. This
48 XV | and remove. But the works which philosophy has consecrated
49 XVI | harassed by shifting emotions which rush them into the very
50 XVI | long to them. Yet the time which they enjoy is short and
51 XVI | how scanty seem the nights which they spend in the arms of
52 XVI | frailties by the tales in which they represent that Jupiter
53 XVI | weakness? Can the nights which they pay for so dearly fail
54 XVII | viewed with terror the end to which it must some time come.
55 XVII | you think those times are which even by their own confession
56 XVII | since even the joys by which they are exalted and lifted
57 XVIII | win love in an office in which it is difficult to avoid
58 XVIII | that keen mind of yours, which is most competent to cope
59 XX | cannot pass over an instance which occurs to me. Sextus46 Turannius
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