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“And tears are heard within the harp I touch.”

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Petrarch, a renowned Italian poet of the Renaissance era, is known as the father of humanism. Born on July 20, 1304, and died on July 19, 1374, his lyrical poetry and humanist thoughts had a profound impact on later generations. more

“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 satisfied with their own disgraceful barrenness, permitted the fruit of other minds, and the writings that their ancestors had produced by toil and application, to perish through insufferable neglect. Although they had nothing of their own to hand down to those who were to come after, they robbed posterity of its ancestral heritage.”

Writing Mind Hands Causes Generations Fruit Satisfied Neglect Application Heritage Ancestor Toil Posterity Antiquity Offence Dishonor Disgraceful Insufferable

Author:Petrarch

“Who naught suspects is easily deceived.”

Suspects Deceived

Author:Petrarch

“It is better to will the good than to know the truth.”

Knows

Author:Petrarch

“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.”

Men Whole Enemy Greater Contrary Whole Life Sentiments Inclination Undone

Author:Petrarch

“If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon.”

Ifs Thinking Causes Ought Treats Presses Critics Treated Apes Illiterate Baboons

Author:Ann Coulter

“Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.”

Firsts Three Class Appreciate Thirds Intellect Useless Excellent

Book:The Prince

Source: The Prince

“And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been recognized or treated at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure. The same thing occurs in affairs of state; for by recognizing from afar the diseases that are spreading in the state (which is a gift given only to the prudent ruler), they can be cured quickly; but when, not having been recognized, they are not recognized and are left to grow to the extent that everyone recognizes them, there is no longer any cure.”

States Left Given Grows Easy Difficult Disease Affair Treated Cures Rulers Physicians Recognizing Prudent Time Passes Afar

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

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