How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
PETRARCHRuthless striving, overcomes everything.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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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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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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