It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
PETRARCHBooks have led some to learning and others to madness.
More Petrarch Quotes
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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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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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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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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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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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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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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