It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
PETRARCHI would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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