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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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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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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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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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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 quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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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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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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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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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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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.
Petrarch
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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