We Are Our Own Aptest Deceiver.

If You Modestly Enjoy Your Fame You Are Not Unworthy To Rank With The Holy.

Human Life-everybody Lives It, But Only To A Few Is It Known.

It Is A Great Error To Take Oneself For More Than One Is, Or For Less Than One Is Worth.

The Whole Art Of Living Consists In Giving Up Existence In Order To Exist.

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.