When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
PETRARCHDo 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?
More Petrarch Quotes
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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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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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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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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