For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
PETRARCHRuthless striving, overcomes everything.
More Petrarch Quotes
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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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.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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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 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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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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