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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.

Petrarch

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 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
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
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
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
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
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
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
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
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
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick

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