A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
PETRARCHRuthless striving, overcomes everything.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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