Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
PETRARCHI desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
More Petrarch Quotes
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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