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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
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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Blessing Dangerous Health Live Man Reason Yourself
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
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
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
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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Enemy Greatness Man Propose
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Death Desire Finding Myself Ready
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
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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Earth Known Moral Myself Name
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet

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