Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
PETRARCHHow fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
More Petrarch Quotes
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I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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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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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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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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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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