A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
PETRARCHYou keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
More Petrarch Quotes
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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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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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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