Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
PETRARCHFor style beyond the genius never dares.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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