I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
PETRARCHI would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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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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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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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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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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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
PETRARCH