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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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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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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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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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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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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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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