To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
PETRARCHRuthless striving, overcomes everything.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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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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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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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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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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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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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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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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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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