Petrarch Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• 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 superficial pleasure; books give delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.

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  Book, Jewels, Purple

• All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

  Petrarch

  Dream, World, Pleasure

• 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 and lay down with satisfaction, for it has the power to advantage not only its lord and master, but many others as well, even though they be far away - sometimes, indeed, though they be not born for thousands of years to come.

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  Years, Satisfaction, Sometimes

  "Petrarch : The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters". Book edited by James Harvey Robinson and Henry Winchester Rolfe, p. 426, 1898.

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