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

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

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

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

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

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

- Petrarch

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

- Petrarch

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

- Petrarch