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.
PETRARCHFor death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
More Petrarch Quotes
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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I 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.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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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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