Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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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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 I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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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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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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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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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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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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