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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.

Petrarch

Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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Death Grudge Hands Himself
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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Beginning Bound Difference Influence Man Myself
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Absence Beginning Breathe Myself Soul
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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Leadership Love Mountain Myself Thinking Well World
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

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