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Francesco Petrarca
“A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.”
Francesco Petrarch

Francesco Petrarca
“How do you know, poor fool? Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence'; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.”
Francesco Petrarch, Petrarch: The Canzoniere, or Rerum vulgarium fragmenta

Francesco Petrarca
“Libri quosdam ad scientiam, quosdam ad insaniam deduxere. (Books have led some to knowledge and some to madness.)”
Francesco Petrarca

Marcus Tullius Cicero
“For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Groucho Marx
“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.”
Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

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