Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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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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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
PETRARCH