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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.

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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
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
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
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
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Curiosity Follow Wonder World
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
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
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Death Desire Finding Myself Ready
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking

Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.

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