Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should… — Petrarch Ambition Copy Share Image
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own. — Petrarch Birth Copy Share Image
The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow,… — Petrarch Cease Copy Share Image
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling. — Petrarch Dazzling Copy Share Image
Oh, may she deign to stand atmy bedside When I come to die; and may she call to me And draw me… — Petrarch Great saying by great authors Copy Share Image
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance. — Petrarch Bark 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
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay. — Petrarch Comfort 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
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
“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
Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and… — Petrarch Believe Copy Share Image
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe. — Petrarch Absence 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
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
Go, grieving rimes of mine, tothat hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from… — Petrarch Great saying by great authors 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
