Laudator Temporis Acti

Augustine, Sermons 229H.3, in G. Morin, ed., Sancti Aureli Augustini Tractatus, sive, Sermones inediti: ex codice Guelferbytano 4096 (Kempten: Kösel, 1917), p. 49 (tr. Edmund Hill):

This life, certainly, is miserable enough. Can anyone be unaware of that, can there be anyone who doesn't admit it? How much we have to put up with, how much we undergo in this life that we don't want to! Quarrels, disagreements, trials, mistaken judgments about one another, so that sometimes, unawares, we embrace an enemy, go in fear of a friend; where there's hunger, there's nakedness, there's cold, there's heat, there's weariness, there's illness, there's jealousy. Certainly this life is miserable enough.

Certe ista misera est: quis hoc nesciat, quis non fateatur? Quanta habemus, quanta patimur, quae nolumus, in ista uita! Rixae, dissensiones, temptationes, ignorantia cordis nostri in inuicem, ita ut aliquando nescientes amplectamur inimicum, timeamus amicum: ubi fames, ubi nuditas, ubi frigora, ubi aestus, ubi lassitudines, ubi aegritudines, ubi zelotipiae. Certe misera est haec uita.