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.
PETRARCHAnd I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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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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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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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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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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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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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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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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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