Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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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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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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