The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
PETRARCHHope is incredible to the slave of grief.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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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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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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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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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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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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