Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
PETRARCHReality is always the foe of famous names.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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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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Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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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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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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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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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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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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