A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
PETRARCHWhen the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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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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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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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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