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Petrarch

When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
PETRARCH

Animal Cat Death Poet
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.
PETRARCH

Bitter Burn Freeze Memories Myself Sweet
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
PETRARCH

Elegant Empty Language Production
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
PETRARCH

Born Ourselves Preference Time
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
PETRARCH

Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
PETRARCH

Better Goodness Known Willing
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.
PETRARCH

Appearance Judgement Ourselves Pain Reality Sadness
Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
PETRARCH

Cry Grief Heaven Lying
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
PETRARCH

Book Leadership Learning Madness
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
PETRARCH

Bliss Follow Old Quick
I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
PETRARCH

Angel Beautiful Earth Walk World
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.
PETRARCH

Love Memories Sweet
A good death does honour to a whole life.
PETRARCH

Death Goodness Life
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
PETRARCH

Comfort Death Need Right
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.
PETRARCH

Comparison Earth Mountain Myself

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