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I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.

Petrarch

I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
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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Born Fortune Honor Oneself Respect
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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Love Memories Sweet
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Angel Beautiful Earth Walk World
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
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
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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Ambition Enemy Enjoyment Jealous Peace
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself

I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.

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I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.

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