Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not satisfied with their own disgraceful barrenness, permitted the fruit of other minds, and the writings that their ancestors had produced by toil and application, to perish through insufferable neglect. Although they had nothing of their own to hand down to those who were to come after, they robbed posterity of its ancestral heritage.
Who naught suspects is easily deceived. - Petrarch
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
- Petrarch
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.
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
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.
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.
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…
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…
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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