Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
PETRARCHSuspicion is the cancer of friendship.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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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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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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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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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.
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