Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
All Quotes by author - Petrarch
" And tears are heard within the harp I touch. "
Within
Harp
Heard
" A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires. "
Cut
Our
Short
" Books have led some to learning and others to madness. "
Learning
Madness
Others
" 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? "
Blessing
You
He
" Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. "
Pride
Peace
Us
" How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance. "
Difficult
Reputation
Ignorance
" How fortune brings to earth the over-sure! "
Fortune
Brings
How
" It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other. "
Honorable
More
Throne
" 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. "
Heart
Life
Love
" Man has no greater enemy than himself. "
Greater
Than
Man
" Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure. "
Coming
World
Will
" Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. "
Beauty
Virtue
Together
" Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. "
Sameness
Cure
Disgust
" Suspicion is the cancer of friendship. "
Friendship
Suspicion
Cancer
" The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling. "
Only
Practical
Love
" There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. "
Lighter
Burden
Than
" To be able to say how much love, is love but little. "
Much
Love
Little
" To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds. "
Men
Myself
Truth
" True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. "
Living
Loving
Love Life
" 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. "
Looks
Earth
Fair
" Who naught suspects is easily deceived. "
Deceived
Suspects
Who
Check our other websites:
BookDark
MusicDark