When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
PETRARCHVirtue is health, vice is sickness.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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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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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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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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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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