"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."
-Petrarch
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"Books have led some to learning and others to madness."
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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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"Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together."
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