What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
PETRARCHVirtue is health, vice is sickness.
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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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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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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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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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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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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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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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