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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.

Petrarch

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
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
The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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Change Forever Glow Last Quick Time
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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Fame Glory Heaven Myself Seek Thinking
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
My 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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Age Chill Draw Feeling Flower Green Myself
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
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
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 Fortune Honor Oneself Respect
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself

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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