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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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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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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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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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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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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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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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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