And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
PETRARCHWhere 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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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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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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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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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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