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I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.

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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Death Dreams End Sleep Wake Up
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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Ambition Enemy Enjoyment Jealous Peace
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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Born Merit Throne
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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Love Memories Sweet
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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Construction Emperor Palace
My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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Age Chill Draw Feeling Flower Green Myself

I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.

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