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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?

Petrarch

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
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 Merit Throne
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
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
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
Death 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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Death Grudge Hands Himself
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
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
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue

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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