And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
PETRARCHHow fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
More Petrarch Quotes
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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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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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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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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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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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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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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