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Francesco Petrarch Quotes

«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.»
«Man has no greater enemy than himself.»
«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 of life, and is prophetic of eternal good.»
«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.»
«Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together»
«To be able to say how much you love is to love but little»
«Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.»
«Books have led some to learning and others to madness»
«There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen»
«It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.»