Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
PETRARCHIt is better to will the good than to know the truth.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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