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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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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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I have friends whose society is delightful to me they are persons of all countries and of all ages distinguished in war, in council, and in letters easy to live with, always at my command.
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Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven's sphere.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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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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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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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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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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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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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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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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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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