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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Petrarch
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Petrarch
Age: 69 †
Born: 1304
Born: July 20
Died: 1374
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
Lyricist
Mountaineer
Philologist
Philosopher
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Francesco Petrarca
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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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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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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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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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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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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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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