Quotes from Petrarch

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

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

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

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world's well beaten ways.

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

He loves but lightly who his love can tell.

I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.

Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.

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.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.

I wish to go beyond the fire that burns me.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

She closed her eyes; and in the sweet slumber lying her spirit tiptoed from its lodging place. It's folly to shrink in fear, if this is dying; for death looked lovely in her face.

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and superficial pleasure; books give delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.

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

And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.