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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
Petrarch
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Petrarch
Age: 69 †
Born: 1304
Born: July 20
Died: 1374
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
Lyricist
Mountaineer
Philologist
Philosopher
Poet
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Writer
Francesco Petrarca
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Francesco Peetrarque
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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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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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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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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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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