When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
PETRARCHTo be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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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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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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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 I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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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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