A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
PETRARCHGreat errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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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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And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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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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Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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