Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
PETRARCHTo be able to say how much love, is love but little.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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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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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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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.
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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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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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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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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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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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