Readings From the Literature of Ancient Rome in English Translations
Readings From the Literature of Ancient Rome in English Translations
Dora Pym
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. . It is true that hours pass, and days and months and years, nor does time that is past ever return, nor can the future be known. Each man must be content with the length of life allotted to him. For the actor must not perform his play over again to win approval, even the act in which he received most applause ; so wise men ought not to want to reach the fall of the curtain, for a short life is long enough to be lived well and honourably ; but if life lasts longer we must grieve no more than ...country people grieve when the sweetness of spring is gone and the summer and autumn have come. For spring is like youth ; it gives signs and promise of harvest to come ; but the other seasons are made for gathering in the harvest and enjoying it. The harvest of old age, as I have often said, is the abundant memory of blessings received in the past. Now, we must count as blessings everything which happens by the laws of Nature ; there- fore, what is more natural for old men than death ? When death comes to young men Nature fights it and opposes it.
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