When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
PETRARCHI know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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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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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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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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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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I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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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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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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