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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

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Death Dreams End Sleep Wake Up
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
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
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Absence Beginning Breathe Myself Soul
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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Fame Glory Heaven Myself Seek Thinking
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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Death Grudge Hands Himself
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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Construction Emperor Palace
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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Greatness Moments Noble Place Yourself
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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Alive Book Friendship Heart Relationship Warm
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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Command Country Delight Easy Friendship Live Myself Society
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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Beautiful Life Pain
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake

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