The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
PETRARCHLove is the crowning grace of humanity.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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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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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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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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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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