The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
PETRARCHReality is always the foe of famous names.
More Petrarch Quotes
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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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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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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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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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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