How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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.
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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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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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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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