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1 II | their course, but Fate takes them unawares while they loll
2 II | clients that crowd about them leave no freedom! In short,
3 II | the marks that distinguish them: A cultivates B and B cultivates
4 II | they were too busy to see them when they wished an audience!
5 II | that, when you performed them, you had no wish for another'
6 IV | shedding Roman blood, he turned them to foreign wars. While he
7 VI | who, though others deemed them the happiest of men, have
8 VII | snares, how much to fearing them, how much to paying court,
9 VII | interests, whether you call them evil or good, do not allow
10 VII | evil or good, do not allow them time to breathe. ~ Finally,
11 VII | teachers everywhere; some of them we have seen that mere boys
12 VII | yet the greater number of them have departed from life
13 VII | fasces,17 when he attains them, desires to lay them aside
14 VII | attains them, desires to lay them aside and says over and
15 VII | gaining the chance to give them, now says: "When shall I
16 VII | When shall I be rid of them?" That advocate is lionized
17 VIII| most indulgent. Both of them fix their eyes on the object
18 VIII| request for time, neither of them on the time itself; just
19 VIII| remaining, how sparing of them would they be! And yet it
20 VIII| that they are ready to give them a part of their own years.
21 IX | waste of life; it deprives them of each day as it comes,
22 IX | comes, it snatches from them the present by promising
23 IX | flee? Old age surprises them while their minds are still
24 X | order that the victims of them nay be censured, each for
25 X | will appear when you bid them, they will suffer you to
26 X | will suffer you to behold them and keep them at your will—
27 X | to behold them and keep them at your will—a thing which
28 X | unresting movement never lets them abide in the same track.
29 X | this is filched away from them, distracted as they are
30 XI | some infirmity has reminded them of their mortality, in what
31 XII | their own homes to bump them against someone else's doors,
32 XII | extent do their evils follow them into all the privacies of
33 XII | it were unlawful to omit them, who are reminded by someone
34 XII | many. Some vices delight them as being proofs of their
35 XIII| stamp, which, if you keep them to yourself, in no way pleasure
36 XIII| soul, and, if you publish them, make you seem more of a
37 XIII| King Bocchus to despatch them? And, doubtless, this too
38 XIII| pitting criminals against them in a mimic battle? He, a
39 XIII| That is not enough! Let them be crushed by animals of
40 XIII| all-powerful man should learn them and be jealous of an act
41 XIV | years that have gone ore them are an addition to their
42 XIV | self-indulgence or rudeness will keep them out! How many who, when
43 XIV | when they have tortured them with long waiting, will
44 XIV | it has been whispered to them a thousand times! ~ But
45 XIV | all mortals can meet with them by night or by day. ~
46 XV | will tax your purse. From them you will take whatever you
47 XV | harmed; no age will destroy them, no age reduce them; the
48 XV | destroy them, no age reduce them; the following and each
49 XV | increase the reverence for them, since envy works upon what
50 XVI | shifting emotions which rush them into the very things they
51 XVI | that the day often seems to them long, the fact that they
52 XVI | their engrossments fail them, they are restless because
53 XVI | something else to occupy them, and all the intervening
54 XVI | they hope for seems long to them. Yet the time which they
55 XVI | Their days are not long to them, but hateful; yet, on the
56 XVII| anxious thought comes over them: How long will these things
57 XVII| who wept was to bring upon them their fate, was to give
58 XIX | short their life is, let them reflect how small a part
59 XX | score than because it puts them aside. The law does not
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