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A good death does honour to a whole life.

Petrarch

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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Ambition Enemy Enjoyment Jealous Peace
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
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.
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Change Forever Glow Last Quick Time
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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Leadership Love Mountain Myself Thinking Well World
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
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
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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Love Memories Sweet
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
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
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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Greatness Grief Light Live Love Myself

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