Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
PETRARCHWho over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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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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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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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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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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