Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
PETRARCHFive enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
More Petrarch Quotes
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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