That man who had prayed for power when he attains it, desires to lay it aside and says over and over: "When will this year be over!" That man creates games and, after setting great value on gaining the chance to win them, now says: "When shall I be rid of them?" The man who is given great approval throughout the whole forum, and fills the place with a great crowd that stretches farther than he can be heard, still says: "When will vacation time come?" Everyone hurries their life on and suffers from a yearning for the future and a weariness of the present. But he who bestows all of his time on
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