Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
PETRARCHWhen the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
More Petrarch Quotes
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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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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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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