Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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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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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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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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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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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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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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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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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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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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