While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
PETRARCHRuthless striving, overcomes everything.
More Petrarch Quotes
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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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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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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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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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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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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