Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
PETRARCHAll pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
More Petrarch Quotes
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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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.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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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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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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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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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, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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