Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
PETRARCHYou keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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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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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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