Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
PETRARCHMere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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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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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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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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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.
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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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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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