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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

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
PETRARCH

Bliss Follow Old Quick
The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
PETRARCH

Change Forever Glow Last Quick Time
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
PETRARCH

Animal Cat Death Poet
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
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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Crown Forever Goodness Grace Heart Humanity Life Love Principle Right Soul Truth
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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Beginning Bound Difference Influence Man Myself
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Curiosity Follow Wonder World
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
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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Bitter Burn Freeze Memories Myself Sweet
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
PETRARCH

Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue

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