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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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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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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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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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.
Petrarch
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
Petrarch
Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven's sphere.
Petrarch
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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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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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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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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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.
Petrarch
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
Petrarch
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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