All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
PETRARCHLife in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
More Petrarch Quotes
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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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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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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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.
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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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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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