Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
PETRARCHFor though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
More Petrarch Quotes
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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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 style beyond the genius never dares.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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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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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 would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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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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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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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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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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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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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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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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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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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