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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.

Petrarch

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
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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Height Man Mountain Revolution Stars Wonder
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
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
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
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
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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Comparison Earth Mountain Myself
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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Amusement Enough Life Short
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World

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