Petrarch Quotes & Sayings
21 most famous Petrarch quotes and sayings (poet). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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 principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Man has no greater enemy than himself.”
“To be able to say how much love, is love but little.”
“How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.”
“Who naught suspects is easily deceived.”
“It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.”
“Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.”
“Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.”
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