The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
PETRARCHIt 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.
More Petrarch Quotes
-
-
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
PETRARCH -
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
PETRARCH -
Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
PETRARCH -
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
PETRARCH -
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
PETRARCH -
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
PETRARCH -
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
PETRARCH -
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
PETRARCH -
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
PETRARCH -
Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
PETRARCH -
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
PETRARCH -
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
PETRARCH -
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
PETRARCH -
I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
PETRARCH -
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
PETRARCH