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PETRARCHMan has not a greater enemy than himself.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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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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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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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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