I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
PETRARCHReality is always the foe of famous names.
More Petrarch Quotes
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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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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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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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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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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