All Petrarch Quotes
- From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world's well beaten… Beaten
- I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and… Age
- Man has not a greater enemy than himself. Enemy
- Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe. Banquet
- Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown. Best
- Hope is incredible to the slave of grief. Grief
- Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness. Bitterness
- How quick the old woe follows a little bliss! Bliss
- It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other. Bestows
- Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed! Alack
- Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe. Absence
- All pleasure in the world is a passing dream. All
- For style beyond the genius never dares. Beyond
- Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual… Ambition
- Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming… Binds
- A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires. Cut
- To be able to say how much love, is love but little. Able
- Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. Beautiful
- Books have led some to learning and others to madness. Book
- There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Agreeable