It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
PETRARCHI would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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