When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
PETRARCHA short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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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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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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