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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

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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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Bitter Burn Freeze Memories Myself Sweet
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
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
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
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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Leadership Love Mountain Myself Thinking Well World
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
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
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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Amusement Enough Life Short

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

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