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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

Petrarch

How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
PETRARCH

Bliss Follow Old Quick
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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Command Country Delight Easy Friendship Live Myself Society
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
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
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
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
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
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
And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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Height Man Mountain Revolution Stars Wonder
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time

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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