Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
PETRARCHRarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
More Petrarch Quotes
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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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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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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