A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
PETRARCHI know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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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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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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The 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.
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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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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
PETRARCH