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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

Petrarch

The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
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
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
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
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
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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Earth Known Moral Myself Name
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Music Myself Tears Touch

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