Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
PETRARCHAnd 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.
More Petrarch Quotes
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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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 would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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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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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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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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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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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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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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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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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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