Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
PETRARCH
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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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