While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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It 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.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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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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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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