While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
PETRARCHWhen the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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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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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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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.
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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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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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