It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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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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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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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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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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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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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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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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