And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
PETRARCHBooks have led some to learning and others to madness.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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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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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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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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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