It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
PETRARCHI know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
More Petrarch Quotes
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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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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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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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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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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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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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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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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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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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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