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Quotes from An Examination of the Advantages of Solitude and of Its Operations — Petrarch

1304–1374 Italy

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Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.

An Examination of the Advantages of Solitude and of Its Operations (1808)

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