Petrarch Quotes

For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
PETRARCH

Comfort
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
PETRARCH

Bitterness Mortal
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

Dangerous
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
PETRARCH
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
PETRARCH
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
PETRARCH

Cancer
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Preference
For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
PETRARCH
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
PETRARCH
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
PETRARCH

Incredible

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