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Petrarch

"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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"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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"There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune."

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"Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none."

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"Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune."

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"I'm as lucky as a bed of oysters on cioppino night."

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"The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune."

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"Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear."

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"Nothing guarantees a person effortless wealth as when his SEASON comes."

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"Luck is a favorable thing out of an uncertainty. No such thing as luck when everything's certain."

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"Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us."

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"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."

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"To be able to say how much love, is love but little."
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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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"Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure."
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"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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"Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace."
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"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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"True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness."
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