You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
PETRARCHGreat errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
More Petrarch Quotes
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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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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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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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