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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.

Petrarch

While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
PETRARCH

Body Hands Life Thinking
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
PETRARCH

Cure Disgust Mom
Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
PETRARCH

Construction Emperor Palace
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
PETRARCH

Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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Blessing Dangerous Health Live Man Reason Yourself
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
PETRARCH

Crown Forever Goodness Grace Heart Humanity Life Love Principle Right Soul Truth
For style beyond the genius never dares.
PETRARCH

Beyond Dare Genius Style
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.
PETRARCH

Change Forever Glow Last Quick Time
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
PETRARCH

Argument Grief Himself
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
PETRARCH

Book Leadership Learning Madness
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
PETRARCH

Foe Names Reality
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
PETRARCH

Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
PETRARCH

Amusement Enough Life Short
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
PETRARCH

Death Dreams End Sleep Wake Up
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
PETRARCH

Born Ourselves Preference Time
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
PETRARCH

Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious

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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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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