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  • To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

    Epistola ad Posteros [Letter to Posterity] in "Petrarch : The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters" by James Harvey Robinson and Henry Winchester Rolfe, (p. 59), 1898.