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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

Petrarch

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
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
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
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
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
For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Body Desire Earth Myself Stars
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
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
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
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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Age Chill Draw Feeling Flower Green Myself
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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Alive Book Friendship Heart Relationship Warm
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
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

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