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.
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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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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 better to will the good than to know the truth.
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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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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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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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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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