Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
PETRARCHI saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
More Petrarch Quotes
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And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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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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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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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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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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