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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?
Petrarch
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Petrarch
Age: 69 †
Born: 1304
Born: July 20
Died: 1374
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
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Mountaineer
Philologist
Philosopher
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Francesco Petrarca
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Those spacious regions where our fancies roam, Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come, In some dread moment, by the fates assign'd, Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last The speed that spins the future and the past: And, sovereign of an undisputed throne, Awful eternity shall reign alone.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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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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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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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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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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