Occupation: Poet Birth: July 20, 1304 Death: July 19, 1374
Books never pall on me. They discourse with us, they take counsel with us, and are united to us by a certain living chatty familiarity. And not only ….
For style beyond the genius never dares..
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!.
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 which we look at t….
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt..
Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?.
Reality is always the foe of famous names..
Man has not a greater enemy than himself..
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
It is better to will the good than to know the truth..
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 sati….
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts..
Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind of….
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 not too ofte….
For virtue only finds eternal Fame..
Books have led some to learning and others to madness..
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen..
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance..
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe..
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us..
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Other pleasures fail us or wound us while they charm, but the pen we take up rejoicing an….