All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
PETRARCHHope is incredible to the slave of grief.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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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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From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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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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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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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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