All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
PETRARCHWho naught suspects is easily deceived.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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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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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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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 rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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