Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
PETRARCHDeath had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
More Petrarch Quotes
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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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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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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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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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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