Francesco Petrarca Quotes

• loving friendship is able to endure everything; it refuses no burden.

  Francesco Petrarca

  Topics in Friendship

• We are dying continuously: I while I write this, you while you read it, others while they hear or do not hear it. I will be dying as you read this, you will be dying as I write it. We are both dying, we are all dying, we are always dying.

  Francesco Petrarca

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

  Francesco Petrarca

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Deceived, Easily

• 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.

  Francesco Petrarca

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Looks, Name, More

• 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.

  Francesco Petrarca

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Reason, Madness

• 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.

  Francesco Petrarca

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Preference, Influenced, Good

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

  Francesco Petrarca

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Little

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

  Francesco Petrarca

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Agreeable

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

  Francesco Petrarca

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Practical, Only

• Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

  Francesco Petrarca

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Suspicion

• Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

  Francesco Petrarca

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Cure

• Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

  Francesco Petrarca

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Great, Together

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

  Francesco Petrarca

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wondered, Departure

• Man has no greater enemy than himself.

  Francesco Petrarca

  Topics in Enemy

  Tags in Greater, Himself

• Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

  Francesco Petrarca

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Grace

• 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.

  Francesco Petrarca

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Good, Principle, Heart

• It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

  Francesco Petrarca

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Honorable, Fortune

• How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

  Francesco Petrarca

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fortune, Sure

• How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

  Francesco Petrarca

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Difficult, Reputation

• 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.

  Francesco Petrarca

  Topics in Ambition

  Tags in Enjoy, Enemies

Francesco Petrarca (24)

Birth:	20th July, 1304
Death:	1374
Nationality:	Italian
Profession:	Poet, Scholar

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Francesco Petrarca was born in Arezzo, Italy. He was a poet and scholar whose humanist philosophy set the stage for the Renaissance. He is also considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian language. Petrarch's writing includes well-known odes to Laura, his idealized love.

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