It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
PETRARCHMy flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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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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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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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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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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