A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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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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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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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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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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