A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
PETRARCHI would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
More Petrarch Quotes
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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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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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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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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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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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
PETRARCH