I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
PETRARCHLove is the crowning grace of humanity.
More Petrarch Quotes
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I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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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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I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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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.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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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.
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