Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
PETRARCHIt is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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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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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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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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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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 have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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