Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
PETRARCHRuthless striving, overcomes everything.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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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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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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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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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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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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