Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
PETRARCHReality is always the foe of famous names.
More Petrarch Quotes
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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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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The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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