I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
PETRARCHA short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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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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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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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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And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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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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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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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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