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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
Petrarch
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Petrarch
Age: 69 †
Born: 1304
Born: July 20
Died: 1374
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
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Francesco Petrarca
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Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and superficial pleasure books give delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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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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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
Petrarch
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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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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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Petrarch
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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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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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.
Petrarch
Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
Petrarch
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
Petrarch
Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
Petrarch
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
Petrarch
