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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.

Petrarch

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
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
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
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
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
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice 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
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
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
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
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
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet

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