When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
PETRARCHThe greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
More Petrarch Quotes
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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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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Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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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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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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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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I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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