For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars. — Petrarch Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Shame is the fruit of my vanities, and remorse, and the clearest knowledge of how the world's delight is a brief dream.” — Petrarch Dreams Copy Share Image
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure. — Petrarch Curiosity Copy Share Image
“...never would I trade for some new shape that laurel I was first, in whose sweet shade all other pleasures vanish in… — Petrarch Laura Copy Share Image
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct. — Petrarch Humans Copy Share Image
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands. — Petrarch Body Copy Share Image
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains… — Petrarch Born Copy Share Image
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears. — Petrarch Christ Copy Share Image
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some… — Petrarch Life Copy Share Image
Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you,… — Petrarch Inspirational Copy Share Image
“I feed my heart with sighs, that's all it asks, I live on tears, I think I'm born to weep; I don't… — Petrarch Poetry Copy Share Image
It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is… — Petrarch Fame 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 Beaten Copy Share Image
“It did not seem to me to be a time to guard myself against Love's blows: so I went on confident, unsuspecting;… — Petrarch Grief Copy Share Image
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is… — Petrarch Bounds Copy Share Image
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human… — Petrarch Climbing Copy Share Image
Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer… — Petrarch Bones Copy Share Image
“. . . The senses reign, and reason now is dead; from one pleasing desire comes another. Virtue, honor, beauty, gracious bearing,… — Petrarch Desire Copy Share Image
“And, to tell finally my greatest service, I've kept him from a thousand vicious acts, for low and vile things could never… — Petrarch Slave Copy Share Image
Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my… — Petrarch Age Copy Share Image
Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier… — Petrarch Ancestor Copy Share Image
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Other pleasures fail us or wound us while they charm, but… — Petrarch Advantage Copy Share Image
Those spacious regions where our fancies roam, Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come, In some dread moment, by the fates… — Petrarch Awful Copy Share Image
Whyle I was abowte to chaunge myn olde lyff-- What sorowe I suffred, dyseese, angre and stryff, Cracchynge myn here, my chekys… — Petrarch Care Copy Share Image
“Aurum, argentum, gemmae, purpurea vestis, marmorea domus, cultus ager, pietae tabulae, phaleratus sonipes, caeteraque id genus mutam habent et superficiariam voluptatem: libri… — Petrarch Books Copy Share Image
“I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct. I had well-nigh forgotten where I… — Petrarch Gazed Copy Share Image
