How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
PETRARCHIt may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
More Petrarch Quotes
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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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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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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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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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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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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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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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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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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