While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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 know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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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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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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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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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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