Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
PETRARCHGreat errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
More Petrarch Quotes
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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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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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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Where 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.
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