I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
PETRARCHSuspicion is the cancer of friendship.
More Petrarch Quotes
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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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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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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