I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
PETRARCHHope is incredible to the slave of grief.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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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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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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To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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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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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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