Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
PETRARCHEvents appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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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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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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