Quotes by : Petrarch

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be....

Virtue is health vice is sickness.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always....

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing....

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us....

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.