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.
PETRARCHThe aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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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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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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