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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.

Petrarch

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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Beginning Bound Difference Influence Man Myself
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
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
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Music Myself Tears Touch
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
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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Death Grudge Hands Himself
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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Height Man Mountain Revolution Stars Wonder
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
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
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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Ambition Enemy Enjoyment Jealous Peace
Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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Darkness Earth Eyes Forever Sight Yourself
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind

Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.

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