To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
PETRARCHSameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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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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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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