It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
PETRARCHI desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
More Petrarch Quotes
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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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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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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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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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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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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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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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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