Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
PETRARCHWho over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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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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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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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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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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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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