Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
PETRARCHPerhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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