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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

Petrarch

I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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Love Memories Sweet
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
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
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
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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Death Grudge Hands Himself
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
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
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
From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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Leadership Love Mountain Myself Thinking Well World
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time

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