Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
PETRARCHHow difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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