Editorial note — THE TENTH BOOK OF THE DIALOGUES OF L. ANNAEUS SENECA, ADDRESSED TO PAULINUS.[1] OF THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE.

“It is a folly therefore beyond Sence, When great men will not give us Audience To count them proud; how dare we call it pride When we the same have to ourselves deny’d. Yet they how great, how proud so e’re, have bin Sometimes so courteous as to call thee in. And hear thee speak; but thou could’st nere afford Thyself the leisure of a look or word. Thou should’st not then herein another blame, Because when thou thyself do’st do the same. Thou would’st not be with others, but we see Plainly thou can’st not with thine own self be.”