Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
PETRARCHFor style beyond the genius never dares.
More Petrarch Quotes
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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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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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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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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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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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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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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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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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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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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