Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
PETRARCHI desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
More Petrarch Quotes
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I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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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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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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