It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains… — Petrarch 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
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
I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world. — Petrarch Angel 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 Copy Share Image
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance. — Petrarch 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 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
The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow,… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors? — Petrarch Construction Copy Share Image
“Neither exhortations to virtue nor the argument of approaching death should divert us from literature; for in a good mind it excites… — Petrarch Approaching death 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
Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If… — Petrarch Delight Copy Share Image
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 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
Those spacious regions where our fancies roam, Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come, In some dread moment, by the fates… — Petrarch 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
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
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown. — Petrarch Beauty Copy Share Image
