It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
PETRARCHHow difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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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 would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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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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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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