Man Believes Himself Always Greater Than He

If Children Grew Up According To Early Indications, We Should Have Nothing But Geniuses.

Everyone Believes In His Youth That The World Really Began With Him, And That All Merely Exists For His Sake.

Prudent And Active Men, Who Know Their Strength And Use It With Limit And Circumspection, Alone Go Far In The Affairs Of The World.

Love Grants In A Moment What Toil Can Hardly Acheive In An Age.

I Do Not Now Begin, - I Still Adore Her Whom I Early Cherish'd In My Breast; Then Once Again With Prudence Dispossess'd, And To Whose Heart I'm Driven Back Once More. The Love Of Petrarch, That All-glorious Love, Was Unrequited, And, Alas, Full Sad.