When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
PETRARCHI rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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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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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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