Italian - Poet | July 20, 1304 - July 19, 1374
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
LifeLoveMadnessLovingLiving
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
BornMoreThroneFortuneHonorable
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.
PeaceAngerAmbitionPrideEnvyUs
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
MotherVarietyCureSamenessDisgust
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
FriendshipCancerSuspicion
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
WorldCuriosityWillFollowComing
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.
LifeLoveGoodTruthHeartSoul
Man has no greater enemy than himself.
ManEnemyGreaterThanHimself
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
LoveLove IsSayLittleAbleMuch
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
PenBurdenMoreThanLighterNor
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
LearningMadnessOthersBooksSome
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
DeceivedWhoNaughtSuspectsEasily
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