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.
PETRARCHWhere you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
More Petrarch Quotes
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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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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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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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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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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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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