Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
PETRARCHEvents 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.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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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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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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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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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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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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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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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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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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