Author: Petrarch

Quotes

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

- Petrarch

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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

The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.

The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.

- Petrarch

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

- Petrarch

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

- Petrarch

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