All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
PETRARCHDeath is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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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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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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