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"17 Francesco Petrarch Quotes & Sayings

      Italian     /    
Born: 20 July 1304. Died: 19 July 1374 | Scholar | Poet |

Reality is always the foe of famous names.

Reality Always Foe Famous
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Love Crowning Humanity Grace
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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.
Peace Ambition Banished Perpetual
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Perhaps Absence Soul Breathe
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

Man Greater Enemy Himself
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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive

Book Heart Close Articulate
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Truth Better Good Than
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
Sleep Death End Allowed
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

All Dream World Pleasure
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

Virtue Health Vice Sickness
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

Suspicion Cancer Friendship Love
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Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.

Moment Ennobles Place Great
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.

Born Time Own Preferred
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Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.

Man Proposed Enemy Contrary
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It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.

Glory Reaches Earthly Fame
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A good death does honour to a whole life.

Death Whole Life Honour
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I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.

Freeze Sweet Flood Tears
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Francesco Petrarch Quotes & Sayings