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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.

Petrarch

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Absence Beginning Breathe Myself Soul
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
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
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
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
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
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
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
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
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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Enemy Greatness Man Propose
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
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious

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