For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
PETRARCHRuthless striving, overcomes everything.
More Petrarch Quotes
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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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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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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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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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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