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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.
Petrarch
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Petrarch
Age: 69 †
Born: 1304
Born: July 20
Died: 1374
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
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Mountaineer
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Francesco Petrarca
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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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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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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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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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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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