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Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.

Petrarch

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
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
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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Construction Emperor Palace
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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Earth Known Moral Myself Name
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
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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Amusement Enough Life Short
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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Crown Forever Goodness Grace Heart Humanity Life Love Principle Right Soul Truth
For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Body Desire Earth Myself Stars
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner

Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.

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Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.

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