A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
PETRARCHDeath had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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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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I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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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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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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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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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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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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