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.
PETRARCHI would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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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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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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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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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
PETRARCH