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.
Who naught suspects is easily deceived. - Petrarch
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
- Petrarch
Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive - Petrarch
Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe. - Petrarch
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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
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.
Love is the crowning grace of humanity. - Petrarch
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual… - Petrarch
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual…
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… - 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…
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me. - Petrarch
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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