My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
PETRARCHI 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.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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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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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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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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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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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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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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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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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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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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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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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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