Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
PETRARCHSuspicion is the cancer of friendship.
More Petrarch Quotes
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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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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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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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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