Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
PETRARCHIt may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
More Petrarch Quotes
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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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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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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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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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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