For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
PETRARCHSuspicion is the cancer of friendship.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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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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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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