Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
PETRARCHWhere are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
More Petrarch Quotes
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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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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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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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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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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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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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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