I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
PETRARCHI know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
More Petrarch Quotes
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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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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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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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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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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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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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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