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 1 I       |       that bemoan what is, as men deem it, an universal ill;
 2 I       |     forth complaint also from men who were famous. It was
 3 II      |       in the pursuit of other men's fortune or in complaining
 4 II      |     at those whose prosperity men flock to behold; they are
 5 II      | through the list of all these men from the lowest to the highest—
 6 II      |     of another. Ask about the men whose names are known by
 7 II      |      master. And then certain men show the most senseless
 8 III     |   darkness of the human mind. Men do not suffer anyone to
 9 III     |     In guarding their fortune men are often closefisted, yet,
10 III     |     from the company of older men and say: "I see that you
11 III     | immortals. You will hear many men saying: "After my fiftieth
12 IV      |    powerful and highly placed men let drop remarks in which
13 V       |      Cicero, long flung among men like Catiline and Clodius
14 VI      |   deemed them the happiest of men, have expressed their loathing
15 VII     |     you should cite to me the men who are avaricious, the
16 VII     |       who are avaricious, the men who are wrathful, whether
17 VII     |       to die. Many very great men, having laid aside all their
18 VIII    |   with wonder when I see some men demanding the time of others
19 VIII    |       what is given, nothing. Men trifle with the most precious
20 VIII    |       almost no value at all. Men set very great store by
21 IX      | hapless mortals, that is, for men who are engrossed, the fairest
22 X       |       I could prove that busy men find life very short. But
23 X       |    under any man's power. But men who are engrossed lose this;
24 XI      |       live long! Decrepit old men beg in their prayers for
25 XII     |      Even the leisure of some men is engrossed; in their villa
26 XII     |      would you say that those men are at leisure who pass
27 XII     |     leisured class either—the men who have themselves borne
28 XIII    |     mention all the different men who have spent the whole
29 XIV     |                   XIV. Of all men they alone are at leisure
30 XIV     |    most ungrateful, all those men, glorious fashioners of
31 XIV     |       a way of life. By other men's labours we are led to
32 XV      |       they have been given to men by chance; yet we may be
33 XVI     |   seem all too short to these men? They lose the day in expectation
34 XVII    |    The very pleasures of such men are uneasy and disquieted
35 XVII(35)|     capable of holding 10,000 men was filled (Herodotus, vii.
36 XVIII   |      There will be no lack of men of tested worth and painstaking
37 XVIII   |    worst evil that can befall men even during a siege—the
38 XX      |      it is more difficult for men to obtain leisure from themselves
39 XX      |      far-reaching hopes; some men, indeed, even arrange for
40 XX      |   truth, the funerals of such men ought to be conducted by