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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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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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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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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Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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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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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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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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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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