I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
PETRARCHLove is the crowning grace of humanity.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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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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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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