A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires....
Quotes Petrarch
And tears are heard within the harp I touch....
Books have led some to learning and others to madness....
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that ...
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, e...
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the ...
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!...
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be bor...
Love is the crowning grace of humanity....
Man has no greater enemy than himself....
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming i...
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together....
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure....
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship....
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs ...
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen....
To be able to say how much love, is love but little....
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning...
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but b...
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for th...
Who naught suspects is easily deceived....
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