Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
PETRARCHLove is the crowning grace of humanity.
More Petrarch Quotes
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To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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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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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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