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.
PETRARCHA short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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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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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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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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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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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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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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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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