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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
PetrarchPetrarch The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
PetrarchPetrarch It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
PetrarchPetrarch A good death does honour to a whole life.
PetrarchPetrarch He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
PetrarchPetrarch Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
PetrarchPetrarch It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
PetrarchPetrarch Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
PetrarchPetrarch I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
PetrarchPetrarch Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
PetrarchPetrarch Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
PetrarchPetrarch How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
PetrarchPetrarch An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
PetrarchPetrarch Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
PetrarchPetrarch I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
PetrarchPetrarch And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
PetrarchPetrarch
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