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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

Petrarch

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
PETRARCH

Absence Beginning Breathe Myself Soul
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
PETRARCH

Death Grudge Hands Himself
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
PETRARCH

Calculation Love
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
PETRARCH

Equality Peace Time Wings
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.
PETRARCH

Comparison Earth Mountain Myself
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
PETRARCH

Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
PETRARCH

Music Myself Tears Touch
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
PETRARCH

Error Men Mind
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
PETRARCH

Argument Grief Refine
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
PETRARCH

Born Merit Throne
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.
PETRARCH

Beginning Bound Difference Influence Man Myself
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
PETRARCH

Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
PETRARCH

Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
PETRARCH

Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
PETRARCH

Book Leadership Learning Madness
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
PETRARCH

Enemy Greatness Himself Man

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

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