Petrarch Quotes

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• I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
• A good death does honour to a whole life.
• Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in…
• And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers,…
• I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I…
• Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
• 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…
• I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with…
• How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
• And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
• Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire…
• Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
• What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy…
• Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not…
• Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
• It is better to will the good than to know the truth,
• 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…
• 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…
• Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
• I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in…

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