Quotes of Petrarch - somelinesforyou

“ Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. ”

- Petrarch

“ 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. ”

- 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. ”

- Petrarch

“ 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. ”

- Petrarch

“ 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 complain of that, since in my state weeping is sweeter than you might believe. ”

- Petrarch

“ Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure. ”

- Petrarch

“ There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. ”

- Petrarch

“ There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. ”

- Petrarch

“ Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. ”

- Petrarch

“ If you are able to say how much you love, you love little. ”

- Petrarch

“ Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: viz., avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. ”

- Petrarch

“ Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: viz., avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. ”

- Petrarch

“ 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

“ If you are able to say how much you love, you love little. ”

- Petrarch

“ Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: viz., avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. ”

- Petrarch

“ Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: viz., avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. ”

- Petrarch

“ 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

“ Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. ”

- 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? ”

- Petrarch

“ There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. ”

- 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. ”

- Petrarch

“ Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. ”

- Petrarch

“ Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: viz., avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. ”

- 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. ”

- Petrarch

“ Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. ”

- Petrarch

“ Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure. ”

- Petrarch

“ Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. ”

- 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. ”

- Petrarch

“ Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. ”

- Petrarch
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