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.
PETRARCHWhere are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
More Petrarch Quotes
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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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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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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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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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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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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Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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