Reality is always the foe of famous names.
PETRARCHDeath had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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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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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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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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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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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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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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