Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
PETRARCHVirtue is health, vice is sickness.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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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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Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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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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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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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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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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