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.
PETRARCHOften have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
More Petrarch Quotes
-
-
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
PETRARCH -
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
PETRARCH -
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
PETRARCH -
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
PETRARCH -
My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
PETRARCH -
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
PETRARCH -
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
PETRARCH -
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.
PETRARCH -
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
PETRARCH -
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
PETRARCH -
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
PETRARCH -
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
PETRARCH -
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
PETRARCH -
I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
PETRARCH -
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.
PETRARCH