Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
PETRARCHReality is always the foe of famous names.
More Petrarch Quotes
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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