How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
PETRARCHHow quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
PETRARCHVirtue is health, vice is sickness.
PETRARCHBooks can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
PETRARCHThe greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
PETRARCHIt is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
PETRARCHRuthless striving, overcomes everything.
PETRARCHLove is the crowning grace of humanity.
PETRARCHA short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
PETRARCHThere is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
PETRARCHLove 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.
PETRARCHThe end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
PETRARCHMan has not a greater enemy than himself.
PETRARCHYou keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
PETRARCHWhen the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
PETRARCHHow fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
PETRARCHWhere 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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