Francesco Petrarca book De vita solitaria
De vita solitaria (1346) as quoted in Madalyn Aslan's Jupiter Signs: How to Improve Your Luck, Career, Health, Finances, Appearance, and Relationships Through the New Astrology (2003) by Madalyn Aslan
“Birth bestows less of honour than it demands; and to boast of ancestry is but to praise the merit of others.”
Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 139
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