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.
– Francesco Petrarch
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
– Francesco 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.
– Francesco Petrarch
Man has no greater enemy than himself.
– Francesco Petrarch
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
– Francesco Petrarch
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
– Francesco Petrarch
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
– Francesco Petrarch
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
– Francesco Petrarch
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
– Francesco Petrarch
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?
– Francesco Petrarch
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.