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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?

Petrarch

Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
PETRARCH

Error Men Mind
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
PETRARCH

Comfort Death Need Right
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.
PETRARCH

Height Man Mountain Revolution Stars Wonder
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.
PETRARCH

Love Memories Sweet
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
PETRARCH

Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
PETRARCH

Better Goodness Known Willing
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
PETRARCH

Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
PETRARCH

Born Fortune Honor Oneself Respect
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
PETRARCH

Amusement Enough Life Short
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
PETRARCH

Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
PETRARCH

Absence Beginning Breathe Myself Soul
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
PETRARCH

Leaving Myself Way Yourself
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
PETRARCH

Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
PETRARCH

Body Hands Life Thinking
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
PETRARCH

Cutting Desire Inspirational
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
PETRARCH

Himself Light Love

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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