A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
PETRARCHAll pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
More Petrarch Quotes
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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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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