Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
PETRARCHHow difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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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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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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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 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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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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.
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