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Because life is short and my wit is afraid of the high undertaking, in neither do I have much confidence. (Petrarch)
And of my raving, shame is the fruit, and repentance, and the clear knowledge that whatever pleases in the world is a brief dream. View quote
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The time to labor is while it is day. View quote
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Truly, we are dust and shadow; truly, desire is blind and greedy; truly, hope deceives. View quote
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A good death does honor to a whole life. View quote
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Before the day of his last departure no man is to be called happy. View quote
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness, when they swallow more than they can digest. View quote
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For your lovely eyes, Lady, bound me. View quote
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But still I cannot seek paths so harsh or so savage that Love does not always come along discoursing with me and I with him. View quote
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Ah new people, haughty beyond measure, irreverent to so great a mother! View quote
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One falls in love through fame. (Petrarch)
This mortal life is like a meadow where the serpent lies among the flowers and grass, and if anything we see there pleases our eyes, the result is to enlime our souls more deeply. View quote
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You, therefore, if you seek ever to have quiet minds before the last day, follow the few and not the crowd. View quote
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My Pandolfo, those works are frail in the long run, but our study is the one that makes men immortal through fame. View quote
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Love governs his empire without a sword. View quote
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One goes many miles to be at ease. View quote
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A thing seems a great marvel but then is despised. View quote
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True is the proverb, one's hair will change before one's habits. View quote
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Full of a yearning thought that makes me stray away from all others. View quote
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Sleep is truly, as they say, akin to death, and relieves the heart of the sweet care that keeps it in life. View quote
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Life flees and does not stop an hour. (Petrarch)
Oh how easy it is to deceive one who is confident! View quote
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He knows that I am speaking the truth, for no worm ever gnawed old wood. View quote
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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 countenances. View quote
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I shall be what I have been, shall live as I have lived. View quote
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