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

Petrarch

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
PETRARCH

Calculation Love
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
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
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
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
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
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
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
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
Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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Cry Grief Heaven Lying
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
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality

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