Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
PETRARCHThe 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.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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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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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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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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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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