A good death does honour to a whole life.
PETRARCHHow fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
More Petrarch Quotes
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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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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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 have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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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 difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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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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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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