He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
PETRARCHI looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
More Petrarch Quotes
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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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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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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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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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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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
PETRARCH