Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
PETRARCHA short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
More Petrarch Quotes
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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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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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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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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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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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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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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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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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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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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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