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Petrarch
Italian
Poet
About the author
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
Petrarch,
Italian
Poet
#Mother
#Cure
#Variety
#Disgust
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
Petrarch,
Italian
Poet
#Books
#Learning
#Madness
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Petrarch,
Italian
Poet
#Peace
#Enemies
#Anger
#Pride
#Ambition
#Envy
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Petrarch,
Italian
Poet
#Ignorance
#Reputation
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
Petrarch,
Italian
Poet
#Earth
#Fortune
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
Petrarch,
Italian
Poet
#Fortune
#Merit
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
Petrarch,
Italian
Poet
#Love
#Grace
#Humanity
Man has no greater enemy than himself.
Petrarch,
Italian
Poet
#Enemy
#Man
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
Petrarch,
Italian
Poet
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
Petrarch,
Italian
Poet
#Virtue
#Beauty
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
Petrarch,
Italian
Poet
#Tears
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
Petrarch,
Italian
Poet
#Cancer
#Suspicion
#Friendship
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
Petrarch,
Italian
Poet
#Love
#Youth
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
Petrarch,
Italian
Poet
#Pen
#Burden
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Petrarch,
Italian
Poet
#Love
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
Petrarch,
Italian
Poet
#Will
#Evil
#Men
#Truth
#Judgment
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
Petrarch,
Italian
Poet
#Life
#Love
#Reason
#Living
#Madness
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
Petrarch,
Italian
Poet
#Earth
#Name
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
Petrarch,
Italian
Poet
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
Petrarch,
Italian
Poet
#Will
#World
#Curiosity
#Departure
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
Petrarch,
Italian
Poet
#Man
#Living
#Desire
#Health