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.
PETRARCHOften on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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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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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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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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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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