How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
PETRARCHA short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
More Petrarch Quotes
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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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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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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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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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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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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