Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown. — Petrarch Beauty Copy Share Image
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter. — Petrarch Amusement Copy Share Image
Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak… — Petrarch Cry Copy Share Image
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling. — Petrarch Copy Share Image
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe. — Petrarch Copy Share Image
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest… — Petrarch Contempt Copy Share Image
Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live. — Petrarch Copy Share Image
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us. — Petrarch Before death Copy Share Image
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his… — Petrarch Death Copy Share Image
From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide… — Petrarch Circuits Copy Share Image
“Yet have I oft been beaten in the field, And sometimes hurt," said I, "but scorn'd to yield." He smiled and said:… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and… — Petrarch Duty Copy Share Image
My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for… — Petrarch Age Copy Share Image
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would… — Petrarch Blessing Copy Share Image
I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the… — Petrarch Death Copy Share Image
If a hundred or a thousand people, all of the same age, of the same constitution and habits, were suddenly seized by… — Petrarch Age Copy Share Image
“I ate in the morning what I would digest in the evening; I swallowed as a boy what I would ruminate upon… — Petrarch Art and science Copy Share Image
Books never pall on me. They discourse with us, they take counsel with us, and are united to us by a certain… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
In my younger days I struggled constantly with an overwhelming but pure love affair - my only one, and I would have… — Petrarch Affair Copy Share Image
