To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
PETRARCHA good death does honour to a whole life.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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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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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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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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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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From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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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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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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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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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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