You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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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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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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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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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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.
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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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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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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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